You don't like your job because you don't know how to do it belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In You don't like your job because you don't know how to do it, 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 field of Applied Behavior Analysis has been overly focused on teaching academic theory and concepts. There's nothing wrong with theory or concepts, but over 75% of BCBAs work in applied settings with the autism population. Most BCBAs are in positions where they are responsible for supervising and managing others, supporting complex families systems and operating within the confines and pressures of the dysfunctional US healthcare system. Organizations that employ BCBAs are expected to provide quality services while simultaneously training and shaping up the professional skills of their clinicians who are woefully unprepared to actually do their jobs. This leads to higher job dissatisfaction, turnover and lower quality services. But fear not, there is hope! This presentation will provide the top 10 most critical skills for BCBAs to master in order to do be successful as an applied practitioner (and to like their job more).
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Sarah loves Behavior Analysis. Sarah does NOT love stress, mean people or beets (because they taste like dirt).
Dig into the research behind this topic — plain-English summaries written for BCBAs.
280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.