APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (ABA)

This course introduces students to fundamental practices in using behavioral principles to create socially significant interventions for people. The course provides an overview of behavioral assessment procedures for determining environmental factors that influence both skill deficits and challenging behavior. Students will learn to identify behavioral interventions to promote positive behaviors related to a variety of self-care, communication, academic, and social skills. In addition, students will learn to identify interventions for reducing challenging behavior. There will be a focus on identifying pivotal skills to teach and prioritizing intervention goals. There will be an emphasis on application of behavioral interventions across multiple domains, including autism and other developmental disorders, intellectual disability, education, parenting, health, and other areas.

This course focuses on real world applications of behavioral principles across topics relevant to modern society. Students will explore behavioral interventions in a variety of areas, including autism, developmental disabilities, mental health, language development, parenting, play, education, feeding disorders, sports, marketing, organizational behavior management, and animal training. Within this context, students will explore what it means to say that an intervention is “behavior analytic” and evidence based and will learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention based on visual data analysis and experimental design.

This course focuses on real world applications of behavioral principles across topics relevant to modern society. Students will explore behavioral interventions in a variety of areas, including autism, developmental disabilities, mental health, language development, parenting, play, education, feeding disorders, sports, marketing, organizational behavior management, and animal training. Within this context, students will explore what it means to say that an intervention is “behavior analytic” and evidence based and will learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention based on visual data analysis and experimental design.

In this course, students will further explore topics related to behavior-analytic assessment and intervention, with a focus on integrating issues related to ethics and cultural competence into service delivery. There will be emphasis on case conceptualization and application of behavioral principles to assessment and the development of treatment options within the context of case analyses. Critical thinking regarding interventions will be fostered by contrasting evidence-based behavior-analytic interventions with those based on pseudoscience. Finally, students will practice developing solutions to common ethical problems that occur during service delivery.

In this course, students will further explore topics related to behavior-analytic assessment and intervention, with a focus on integrating issues related to ethics and cultural competence into service delivery. There will be emphasis on case conceptualization and application of behavioral principles to assessment and the development of treatment options within the context of case analyses. Critical thinking regarding interventions will be fostered by contrasting evidence-based behavior-analytic interventions with those based on pseudoscience. Finally, students will practice developing solutions to common ethical problems that occur during service delivery.