Scholarly publications
Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis
(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)
Behavior Analysis in Practice
7/9 Law, V., Turner, L.B. & Brewer, A.T. Using Peer-Led Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Trainees Active and Empathic Listening Skills in a Virtual Environment. Behav Analysis Practice (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-00954-w
4/6 behavior analytic trainees learned active listening skills from peer-led BST; the remaining 2 mastered the skills with 1 additional expert-led training
Frank-Crawford, M.A., Tate, S.A., Goetzel, A. et al. Using Functional Communication and Competing Stimuli to Gradually Increase the Distance of Transitions in the Treatment of Tangibly Maintained Elopement. Behav Analysis Practice (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-00957-7
In treating a case of elopement to tangibles, the authors used FCT and competing items to increase the physical distance of transitions without elopement
7/11 Belisle, J., Paliliunas, D., Catrone, R. et al. A Comprehensive Behavioral Model of Emotion Rooted in Relational Frame Theory and Contemporary Extensions. Psychol Rec (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-024-00603-2
Synthesizing several radical behavioral frameworks in RFT into an explanation for experiencing emotions
Anckner, C.M., Jacobs, K.W. Interobserver Agreement among a Staff Member and Visitors at a Wolf Sanctuary. Behav Analysis Practice (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-00959-5
Untrained observers were used to record wolf 1 or 2 wolf behaviors during 50-minute blocks with just a description and/or picture of the behavior; IOA was generally above 80% though participants struggled with tracking more than 1 behavior
7/12 Guercio, J.M., Frame, K., Hartnell, T. et al. Blending Staff Preference Assessments and Contingent Reinforcement to Enhance Data Collection in a Residential Facility for Adults with Severe Aggressive Behavior. Behav Analysis Practice (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-00961-x
Contingent preferred items were used to increase staff data collection in a residential facility for adults. Great to see this type of OBM intervention in a more "mainstream" journal
Behavioral Interventions *
7/10 Hodder, E., Virúes-Ortega, J., Taylor, S., Phillips, K. J., & Sharp, R. A. (2024). Effects of check-in interval on active engagement in people with dementia. Behavioral Interventions, e2040. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.2040
(Open access) In elder care facilities, residents sometimes don't engage with activities and staff are not actively engaged with the residents, which can cause worsening of dementia and even premature death. Checking in with residents every 15 minutes, inviting them to join activities, and providing praise is a simple and effective intervention. This study tries a 30 minute interval and found it to be effective in increasing participation in activities
Behavior and Social Issues
7/8 Rzeszutek, M.J., DeFulio, A. & Khan, F.F. “I Can’t Afford the Copays, So Guess I’ll Die?” Using Discounting Methodology to Quantify How Cost Affects Health-Care Utilization. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-024-00173-6
The authors used Amazon Mechanical Turk surveys to explore delay discounting as applied to healthcare access and costs relative to symptoms. Per the authors, American healthcare is twice as expensive as comparable countries with the highest rate of death from preventable causes; surveys reflected that increased costs discouraged people from seeking healthcare
Education and Treatment of Children
7/9 Owens, J.S., Margherio, S., Dillon, C. et al. The Daily Report Card and Check-in/Check-out: A Commentary About Two Siloed Interventions. Educ. Treat. Child. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-024-00126-z
(Open access) Check-in/check-out and daily report card interventions have generally been separate, but are similar interventions. The authors describe the two. They also run a daily report card site for teachers that looks like simplified online data collection
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Suicide is my only way: The longitudinal reciprocal relations of experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and suicidal ideation among adolescents
(In press) Experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion have a reciprocal relationship, and suicidal ideation increases both in adolescents
Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis (REBAC) v. 20, n. 1 (2024) (11 articles, 11 open access, 1 article in English)
Most intriguing: Coordinated Responding Under Concurrent Schedules of Reinforcement
Honestly, that is just the only one in English. The others do have English abstracts, anyway
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Routledge
Writing Skills for Behavior Analysts: A Practical Guide for Students and Clinicians, Edited by Reinecke, Knihtila, Papazian, Heyman & Bratton
Sloan publishing
Ethics: Proactive and Practical Decision Making for Behavior Analysts, LeBlanc & Karsten
Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Belonging: Reflections for Behavior Analysts, Dyer, Weiss, Tereshko, & Linnehan (eds.)
2023: A list here
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
Episode 281 - Neurodiversity, pt. 3 w/ Dr. Kate Chazin
Behavioral Observations
BOP REWIND: A Constructional Approach for Solving Behavioral Challenges, with Claire St. Peter
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
The Quest to Communicate About Behavior Analysis (#3 of 5): No-Paragraphs Naomi and the Tyranny of Text A long explanation of why people don't like long reads
The Truth About Lying: A Behavioral Perspective
A brief discussion of a behavioral account of lying
No!
Tom Critchfield makes the case for "no." Should I make the case for "yes"?
OAR
Guidance and Support for Siblings and Their Parents
Licensing & professional organizations
ASAT
July newsletter special issue: Communication
CASP
ABA practice guidelines version 3.0 have been released. This describes ABA to funding sources, etc.
BF Skinner Foundation
A new issue of Operants
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
Behavioral Health Enters ‘Uncertainty Era’ After Chevron Doctrine Ends
Some people feel like unelected, unaccountable agencies making a lot of rules was not sustainable or reasonable. Some people think congress is not going to sensibly and accurately package thousands of pages of expert-level law on behavioral health. Has anyone suggested AI?
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
In Philadelphia, a run club helps those recovering from addiction find purpose, NPR
The very first sentence of the piece:
Kellen Matthews-Thompson says in early addiction recovery, you need to “change people, places and things."
I don’t know if this is a common saying in addiction treatment, but it’s brilliant. Often addiction treatment fails because people leave their community for an inpatient treatment – and are returned to the original environment, with the same discriminative stimuli (e.g., people, places, and things). One way to treat these stimuli is to expose people to them repeatedly in the absence of the drug; for example, having a person hold and manipulate a needle until there ceases to be an environmental association between needles and effects of a drug.
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive has a list of events, some of which are free: 7/17 (ETH), 7/18, 7/31
Flashback
Programmed instruction, a method of writing text so that learners “fill in the blanks” with answers as they read, is not used often because it is costly to do correctly and can be indistinguishable from text that is done incorrectly. You would expect to see it in behavior analysis, but as far as I know only Holland and Skinner and Miller have written such text.