Using BST to Advance Assessment Data Collection Specific to Motivating Operations 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 Using BST to Advance Assessment Data Collection Specific to Motivating Operations, 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 →The behavior analyst's mastery of motivating operations (MOs) must be accurate and complete since MOs take their place aside reinforcement, antecedent control, and other principles essential to understanding how anything functions as reinforcers. This presentation demystifies MOs and demonstrates how to explain the MO principle to clients and employ it with validity. Furthermore, participants will learn how to use behavioral skills training (BST) as a guide when strategizing for collecting descriptive assessment or treatment data on motivating operations. This is a presentation for all levels since it is a habit novice BCBAs should be cultivating and is something most seasoned practitioners will find beneficial for rewarding and effective planning. Objectives: By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: ● Apply the concept of motivating operations in a given scenario. ● Describe how to incorporate BST in your client consultation planning. ● Enumerate three task initiatives you can start today with any of your cases.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Robert Wallander is a research practitioner with more than 30 years experience as a certified behavior analyst across residential, school, clinic, and community settings. Dr. Wallander received training in ABA philosophy and practice at three recognized centers for behavior analytic training: Drake, Western Michigan, and Florida State University. He remains committed to spending time writing, researching, and serving a full caseload of community applied clients. Maintaining a balance between clinical, teaching, and study has helped shape Dr. Wallander’s unique insights for effective practice and service delivery. His research and teaching interests include maximizing functional behavior assessment practices, the verbal behavior of experts and novices engaged in representative tasks, and tools for the practitioner to be most effective, confident, and pleased with their work and career. Dr. Wallander has developed a keen understanding of how procedural integrity meets the needs for recurring self-analysis of one’s own “ethical health.” It is this accumulated practical wisdom and methods that has led Dr. Wallander to co-create workshops that promote advanced skills for peer practitioners to achieve optimum effectiveness and satisfaction working in the field of ABA. When not engaged in behavior analytic pursuits, Dr. Wallander pursues a passion for handcraft, repurposing/restoring, and sharing these experiences across various social media platforms.
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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