OCTOBER 2025 APBA Journal Club is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In OCTOBER 2025 APBA Journal Club, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →It is critical for practicing behavior analysts to remain in contact with the scholarly literature. In fact, behavior analysts who are certified and/or licensed likely have an ethical obligation and requirement to maintain their skills and knowledge and to accrue continuing education hours. Finding time to connect with research and other important scholarly work can be a challenge for professionals. APBA to the rescue! Our monthly Journal Club highlights peer-reviewed work relevant to your professional activities. Articles are presented by at least one of the article's authors giving you a chance to ask questions about the article and how to put strategies into practice. Student, trainees, and Behavior Technicians are encouraged to attend to engage with their scientist-practitioner community and develop their skills. This month we are featuring the article titled Improving Human-Service Organizations through Process Mapping: A Tutorial for Practitioners presented by Molli Luke. The presenter will walk us through the article with a particular focus on the practical application of strategies and considerations for implementation. Attendees will be able to submit questions ahead of time and throughout the presentation. Luke, M. M., Dams, P., & Lichtenberger, S. N. (2024). Improving Human-Service Organizations through Process Mapping: A Tutorial for Practitioners. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17(1), 359-370.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 0 | — |
Molli M. Luke PhD, BCBA-D, ICE-CCP is the Chief Certification and Learning Officer at the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Her professional interests include organizational behavior management, systems-level assessment and intervention, and packaging of systems interventions as means to improve behavior-analytic services and promote application to new populations and regions. Dr. Luke has served in leadership roles as a developer of sustainable and effective organizational systems within various organizations, which have been diverse in size, funding sources, and type of services provided and have included two non-USA locations. Dr. Luke received her doctorate in Behavior Analysis in 2013 from the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Luke is on the Board of Directors for the South Metro Land Conservancy and on the Behavior and Social Issues and Journal of Organizational Behavior Management 's editorial boards. She has served as a board member for the Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis and the Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Special Interest Group.
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