Behavior Analyst Online
Contact Info
- Joseph Cautilli
- Philadelphia, PA
- Phone: (215) 496-0707 x1166
- SIG Web site
- SIG News (April 2007)
Mission/Objectives
Behavior analysis is without question one of the most dynamic professions today, with significant influence in the clinical setting, 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, 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. Behavior Analyst Online is dedicated to helping behavior analysts keep up with current research and methodology in this rapidly progressing field.
The organization 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 organization will be responsible to its membership to develop resources useful in everyday research, education, and application of the science of behavior.
The organization will be operated under the guidance of its Senior Membership Board.
The SIG provides information on and articles about:
- Theory, basic and applied research, model development based on behavioral principles, and behavioral practice
- Expectations and roles of the behavior analyst, including clinical behavior analysts and behavior analysts working as behavior therapists
- 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 behavior management level strategies and interventions for mental health, developmental disabilities, educational interventions, and systems for intervening
- Training and professional standards
Additionally, the organization is working to increase site readership by 200 readers per month though increased knowledge of the journals, starting of new journals, and the site forum.
Description of Membership
We have over 1,500 members around the world.
Publications/Newsletters
We publish four journals presently, each of which is published quarterly: The Behavior Analyst Today, The Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, and Speech and Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis.
We have plans to publish two more journals, the Journal of Behavior Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness, and Medicine and the Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention.
Specifically of Interest to Behavior Analysts
We meet the needs of behavior analysts in hard-to-reach regions who might not have access to behavioral journals. These journals can be found at the Behavior Analyst Online Web site, www.behavior-analyst-online.org.
Behavior Analyst Online provides publishing opportunities for behavior analysts and has published over 400 behaviorally-oriented articles in all areas of behavior analysis including, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied and clinical behavior analysis, organizational behavior management, behavior analysis in education, philosophical issues in behaviorism.
Behavior Analyst Online currently has over 100 members on its editorial boards serving as reviewers, associate editors, and senior associate editors, providing editorial and leadership opportunities for behavior analysts.
In addition, Behavior Analyst Online makes materials affordable and accessible to instructors and students. Textbooks are expensive and often the exchange rates for currency increase the expense for individuals overseas. Instructors from around the world have contacted us to thank us for making a wonderful product that their students can access.
Behavior Analyst Online Data
Performance of the Behavior Analyst Online Web site has grown in recent months. The number of visits per month has increased from 2,000 in October 2005 to 2,300 in October 2006, with a peak of approximately 2,800 visits in September 2006.
The articles published on-line are referenced internationally. Approximately 25- 45% of the site’s current readership is located outside the US. A sampling of the 100 most recent hits on the Web site and for each journal as of August 1, 2006 reflects the geographic make-up of our readership.
The location of readers visiting the Behavior Analyst Online Web site were as follows: 75 in the United States, four in Canada, four in Spain, three in Malaysia, three in Sweden, two in India, and two in New Zealand. There was one reader each in Australia, Colombia, Finland, Ireland, Israel, the Philippines, and an unknown location.
The location of readers accessing the Behavior Analyst Today were as follows: 54 in the United States, seven in Sweden, six in Canada, four in Israel, four in Spain, three in India, three in the United Kingdom, and two each in China, Brazil, Malaysia, and the Philippines. There was one reader each in Australia, France, Iran, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, the Republic of Korea, and an unknown country.
The location of readers accessing the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention were as follows: 68 in the United States, seven in Canada, and two each in Germany, Hungary, Kuwait, Malaysia, Spain, and Sweden. There was one reader each in Australia, Austria, China, France, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, and an unknown country.
The location of readers accessing the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy were as follows: 66 in the United States, five in Canada, five in Germany, three in Spain, and two each in Argentina, China, India, Ireland, Mexico, Romania, and Slovakia. There was one reader each from Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The location of readers accessing the Speech and Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis were as follows: 68 in the United States, nine in Canada, four in Spain, two in the United Kingdom, two in Malaysia, two in Mexico, and two in Germany. There was one reader each from Algeria, Argentina, Australia, France, Finland, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Venezuela, and an unknown country.