Polish ABA
Affiliated in 2004
Contact Info
- Monika Suchowierska
- Warsaw, Poland
- Phone: +48 609-131-124
- Fax: +48-22-885-19-25
- Polish ABA Web site
- Chapter News (April 2007)
This chapter's Web site includes links.
Mission/Objectives
The goals of the Polish Association for Behavior Analysis (PABA) are to develop and disseminate knowledge about behavior analysis as a science of behavior and about the behaviorism of B. F. Skinner as a philosophy of this science. PABA's interests lie in basic science, focusing on principles governing human and nonhuman behavior (i.e., the experimental analysis of behavior), and applied science, focusing on application of those principles for improvement of socially important problems (i.e., the applied behavior analysis).
Description of Membership
The organization is made up of full, supporting, and honorary members. Only full members have voting privileges. A full member is any member of PABA who signs a declaration to support the organization and to obey its bylaws. A supporting member is a person or an organization, who offers a financial or other support for PABA or who, in any other form, supports PABA. In case of a supporting organization, it should have its representative in PABA. An honorary member is a person who has provided a substantial input in the idea, the development, or other activities of the organization.
Annual or Recurring Events
PABA organizes quarterly meetings during which lectures are given and an annual meeting. The annual meeting serves as the organization’s highest decision making body - it consists of full members and honorary members. Every three years, the annual meeting is summoned by the Board of Officers as a reporting-voting meeting.
Newsletters/Publications
Currently PABA does not have its own publication; however, the organization is participating in the publication of the Behavior Analysis Digest, which is supposed to be PABA's publication in three years.
Specifically of Interest to Behavior Analysts
PABA's activities are of interest to behavior analysts due to the goals of the organization and the activities we engage in with respect to behavior analysis (experimental, conceptual, and applied).