Scholarly publications
Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis
(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis *
6/29 O'Brien, M. J., Pauls, A. M., Jeglum, S. R., Martinez-Perez, C. N., Franck, C. T., Aggarwal, I., & Podlesnik, C. A. (2026). Latency and persistence of renewal in an intensive outpatient clinic. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59(3), e70071. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70071
(Open access) In a case series of 98 participants, latency to behavior was not associated with renewal or persistence, but greater renewal magnitude predicted duration of persistence. Context change type (people, settings, tasks) did not have a differential effect
Behavior Analysis in Practice
6/29 Anonymous Author Invisibility and Vulnerability of International Latin American Female Students in the U.S. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01069-6
(Open access) We have never seen an article published by an anonymous author. Then again, for Latin American people in the United States, this year has been...interesting
Britwum, K., Chong, I.M. & Leon, Y. A Participatory Action Research Collaborative (PARC) Approach to Building Research Infrastructure Across ABA Agencies. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01203-y
(Open access) To increase research, the authors recommend a university-agency partnership model
6/30 Symons, R.M., Bukspan, A. & Harper, J. Beyond the Scoreboard: Reshaping Youth Sports Culture Using an Applied Behavior Analysis Framework. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01205-w
How ABA can contribute to sports training and culture. For more on training, see Garry Martin
7/1 Casas, K.O., Blair, KS.C. & Risse, M.R. An Evaluation of the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce Secondary (PTR-SEC) Model for Middle School Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01195-9
(Open access) Prevent Teach Reinforce is a manualized ABA treatment marketed to school personnel that decreased problem behavior and increased on-task behavior in 3 students with EBD
Niland, H.S., Hamrick, J., Ahmed, A. et al. Evaluating Structured Group Supervision to Support Practice-based Research Skills in Applied Behavior Analysis. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01206-9
(Open access) A 6 week group supervision process taught university-based practitioners to create and publish research. Their knowledge improved but direct training on various skills is probably necessary to increase publication
Li, J., Luna, O. & Choi, E. Enhancing Supervisor Feedback Quality Using a Checklist, Performance Feedback, and Self-Monitoring. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01198-6
Self-monitoring, a checklist, and feedback improved supervisory feedback during role play for 5 participants, and 3/5 generalized the skills to a new role play
Bolívar, H.A., Fernand, J.K. & Buxton, E.K. Ethics Continuing Education Events at Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Conventions (2016-2024): A Topic Modeling Analysis. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01207-8
The authors examined ethics presentations at ABAI from 2016-2024 to survey the topics, finding about 25 common themes
Behavioral Interventions *
7/4 Fletcher, Victoria L., Sarah A. Lechago, and Julia M. Emery. 2026. “Teaching the “Why?” Mand for Information to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder,” Behavioral Interventions: e70124. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70124
They taught 3 autistic kids to mand "Why?" under 3 different EOs using a progressive echoic prompt delay. But...why
Journal of Behavioral Education
6/30 Lanovaz, M.J. On the External Validity of Single-Case Designs: A Bayesian Approach. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09639-6
A suggestion that prior experience and outcomes in literature can be combined into an estimate of treatment success
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice, Layng, Andronis, Codd, Abdel-Jalil (Eds.) (Nov 2026)
Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis, Abdel-Jalil & Linnehan (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
Personal Narratives on the Behavior Analysis of Human Language and Cognition: Stories from Around the World, Harte et al. (Eds.) (Jul 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon (Pre-order)
Digital Technologies in Behavior Science: Theoretical and Practical Applications, Crone-Todd, Hantula, Layng (Eds.)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners, Vladescu & Kissamore (Eds.)
Navigating Ethics in Behavior Analysis: Dealing with Gray Areas, Carr
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
July 2026 Preview
Episodes will include:
Preparing for Public School Practice w/ Dr. Kristin Foley + Dr. Fina Robertson
Ethics for Today and Tomorrow w/ Dr. Jon Bailey
Inequitable Discipline w/ Dr. Mawule Sevon
So You Want to Teach Reading (When Text Speaks Book Club) w/ Dr. Denise Ross + Dr. Douglas Greer
All Things Behavior
A Mediational Theory of Verbal Relations with Hank Schlinger and Eb Blakely
Behavioral Observations
Essential for Living in Action: Building Meaningful Skills Through Everyday Events | Session 334 with Kristina Montgomery and Emily Beal Wilkinson
Functional Relations
#44 - Leveling Up the Respondent-Operant Distinction w/ Dr. Michael Domjan
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
Our Discipline’s Paper Trail, Part 1: What Exactly Are Behavior Analysis Journals For?
Our Discipline’s Paper Trail, Part 2: How to Declutter the Journal Closet
Tom Critchfield makes the case for consolidating journals
Sharing Sustainability Successes: Organizational Green Networks
A few organizations described
OAR
When Autism Is Misread: Helping Autistic Individuals Prepare for Police Encounters
Is it a problem that we have to talk to various populations about how the police will probably try to murder them at some point?
Licensing & professional organizations
EAHB
Community Updates: call for papers on creativity as behavior
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
The promising fix for mental health crises that hospitals can’t afford is: dedicated mental health units that direct people away from the emergency room. These types of “we can’t afford effective treatment” stories are always questionable. When the #1 mental health problem is depression and each ER visit costs $13k on average, why keep shunting people into inappropriate treatment in an emergency department? Well, specialized units apparently have trouble getting reimbursed, so the actual problem is the existence of insurance companies
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
Why Americans are living longer again, Vox
Americans aren’t just living longer – all cause mortality could be at the lowest level in American history. Virtually the entire reason: a sharp decline in overdose deaths. Why might this be the case, when “we can’t afford effective treatment”? As this Vox article notes, the US has cracked down on international supplies of precursor chemicals for synthetic drugs, but also lots of addicts have simply already died. Maybe we can get contingency management covered by health insurance companies before the next gas station heroin is invented?
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive has free events: 7/9, 7/15, 7/20, 7/22 (ETH), 7/23 (SUP), 7/27 (SUP), 7/29
