Inside Behavior Analysis
Volume 1 | 2009 | Number 1
Behavior Analysis Online
By Paul Malanga
Behavior Analysis is without question one of the most dynamic professions with significant impact in behavioral medicine, mental health, health, sports and fitness, developmental disabilities, school wide positive behavioral support, special education, organizational dynamics, criminology, offender rehabilitation, and education today. The emphasis on prevention, early intervention, accurate comprehensive functional behavioral assessment, collaboration, and problem solving demands that behavior analysts be creative thinkers who command a tremendous range of evidence-based procedures based on principles of the science of human behavior. Keeping up with best practices is critical to ensuring that the client's right to effective behavioral intervention is ensured. The Behavior Analyst Online organization is dedicated to helping behavior analysts keep up with current research and methodology in this rapidly progressing field.
The BEHAVIOR ANALYST ONLINE.ORG will develop and deploy new resources making them available on the internet free of charge to the public. These resources will be dedicated to educating the public about Behavior Analysis as well as serving as a resource for professionals involved in research and/or application of principles of Behavior Analysis.
The BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ONLINE.ORG will be responsible to its membership to develop resources that the membership will find useful in everyday research, education, and application of the science of behavior.
The BEHAVIOR ANALYST ONLINE.ORG will be operated under the guidance of its Senior Membership Board.
This site provides behavior analysts with:
- Theory, basic and applied research, model development based on behavioral principles, behavioral development, and behavioral practice;
- Expectations and roles of the behavior analyst;
- Collaboration and communication with other stakeholders;
- Assessment strategies including functional assessment and analysis, curriculum based measurement, direct and analogue assessment;
- Behavioral Interventions;
- Laws, funding, and public policy;
- Organizational Behaviors Management level strategies and interventions for mental health, developmental disabilities, educational interventions, and systems for intervening;
- Training and professional standards.
Objective
The objective of BEHAVIOR ANALYST ONLINE.ORG is to develop specific resources including, but not limited to:
- On-line eJournals
- On-line referral services
- Professional Placement Services
- Behavior Analysis Web Boards
- Document Shares
- E-mail Newsletters
- On-line Behavior Analysis Storefronts
Subscribe
See http://www.behavior-analyst-online.org/Mailing.html for directions to subscribe to specific journal mailing lists.
Obituary
The BAO mourns the loss of one of its most dedicated members: Craig Thomas. The movie Blade Runner has a classic quote, "the candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long." Craig burned very bright. He was an inspiration. He built a world-wide consulting network and he developed a clinic in Mississippi for children and adults with the most challenging conditions. To BAO, he was a critical player in building all seven journals- he will be deeply missed. Craig was a straight-forward person who worked hard for BAO to keep the site running. He was a person who always had a smile and a solution to some of the worst problems the team faced. Craig was always dedicated to behavior analysis, but more importantly, to his clients. BAO has received many letters of support in his passing. Craig will be missed by all of us at BAO. At ABAI's SIG meeting was a memorial service and several papers on Craig's contribution to the field will be presented at next year’s conference.