Inside Behavior Analysis
Volume 3 | 2011 | Number 2 | Online ISSN: 2151-4704
Behavior Analysis Online
By Paul Malanga
Behavior analysis has been used to improve performance in a wide array of fields including behavioral medicine; mental health; health, sports and fitness; developmental disabilities; school wide positive behavioral support; special education; organizational dynamics; criminology; offender rehabilitation; and education. The emphasis on prevention, early intervention, comprehensive functional behavioral assessment, collaboration, and problem solving demands behavior analysts to be creative thinkers in the application of evidence-based procedures on principles of the science of human behavior. Staying current with best practices is critical to ensuring a client's right to effective behavioral intervention while wide dissemination helps "save the world with behavior analysis." The Behavior Analyst Online organization is dedicated to helping behavior analysts remain current in research and methodology while providing free online access that helps ensure worldwide availability to some of the latest behavior analysis research. This is demonstrated in the fact that approximately 46% of the site's viewers are located outside the US, comprising of 16 countries including Kuwait, China, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
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 behavior analysis principles.
It 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 and will be operated under the guidance of its Senior Membership Board. Listed below are examples of what this site provides for behavior analyst:
- Theory, basic and applied research 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 across an array of disciplines including behavioral health, education, criminology, consultation, verbal behavior, and early intervention
- Laws, funding, and public policy
- Organizational behavior management-level strategies and interventions for mental health, developmental disabilities, and 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:
- Online e-journals
- Online referral services
- Professional placement services
- Behavior analysis web boards
- Document shares eNewsletters
- Online behavior analysis storefronts
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