A Behavior Analyst's Guide to Supervising Fieldwork

by Tonya N. Davis, Jessica S. Akers

Overview

This guide is specifically designed for supervisors of trainees completing fieldwork requirements for the Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) credential, to ensure a well-planned and well-documented fieldwork experience.  Supervisors have a significant responsibility to plan, sequence, implement, and track their supervisee's fieldwork and skill acquisition. This guide was created to align with the Board-Certified Behavior Analyst Task List, providing a structured curriculum to support the many responsibilities of a supervisor, and covering a wide range of topics. The book includes instructions for group and individual supervision activities, homework activities for supervisees, and methods of assessing skills. It is designed to support the supervisor by covering all aspects key to supervision. Its many additional materials are designed to maximize the supervisor's use of time, and to gauge the effectiveness of their work. It is evidence-based and practically oriented, and will benefit the supervisor as well as the trainee.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031099328
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	01/05/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	67 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Tonya Davis is a Professor at Baylor University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied behavior analysis. In 2010, she founded the Applied Behavior Analysis graduate program at Baylor University as well as the university-affiliated applied behavior analysis clinic where students completed a portion of their supervised fieldwork. Within this capacity, Dr. Davis developed and implemented supervision activities for numerous graduate students. Dr. Davis’ research revolves around her primary goal of ensuring children with developmental and intellectual disabilities have access to the most effective interventions across a variety of settings. This includes two lines of research, first developing approaches support pre- and in-service professionals to implement evidence-based practices. The second is evaluating interventions to reduce challenging behavior, focusing on approaches to address barriers of implementing interventions in homes and schools.
Dr. Jessica Akers is an Assistant Professor at Baylor University where she teaches courses in the applied behavior analysis program. Dr. Akers serves as the practicum coordinator which entails directing and managing the field experience course within the program. In this role, Dr. Akers oversees the supervision of graduate students accumulating hours for certification. Dr. Akers’ research interests include strategies for promoting appropriate social and play skills in individuals with autism and related disabilities and identifying effective procedures for training caregivers and professionals to implement behavior analytic interventions.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Feedbacko Delivering feedback/consultationo Obtaining feedback from supervisees and others3. Tracking skill and concept mastery (must contain a document to track completion (a) taught it, (b) supervisee passed knowledge test, and (c) supervisee passed skills/application test).4. Measuremento Operational Definitions and Continuous Data Collectiono Data Collection: Sampling Procedures&Trials to Criteriono Selecting Measurement System, Reliability5. Data displayo Graphing&Interpreting Graphso Experimental Designs6. Reinforcement, Part 1o Positiveo Negativeo Schedules of Reinforcement7. Preference Assessmentso Free operanto Multiple Stimuluso Paired Stimulus8. Reinforcement, Part 2o Conditioned reinforcerso Token economies9. Discrete Trial Trainingo Stimulus and Response Promptso DTT10. Discriminative stimuli Part 1o Modeling&Imitation Trainingo Simple and Conditional Discriminations11. Discriminative stimuli Part 2o Instructions and Ruleso Equivalence based instruction12. Naturalistic Instructiono Milieu Teachingo Incidental Teaching13. Motivating operationso Manipulating MOs of reinforcers,o Choice14. Shaping and Chainingo Shapingo Chainingo Activity schedules15. Generalizationo Generalizationo Maintenance16. Descriptive Reviewo FASTo RAISDo ABC Recording17. Functional analyses, Part 1o Traditionalo Demand Assessments18. Functional Analyses, Part 2o Briefo Trial-basedo Interpretation of results19. Behavior Reduction Procedures, Part 1o Extinctiono NCR20. Differential Reinforcement Procedureso DRA (not FCT)o DROo DRI21. Functional Communication Training (FCT)22. Behavior Reduction Procedures, Part 2o High-probability instructional sequenceo Group contingencies23. Behavior Reduction Procedures, Part 3o Contingency contractingo Self-management24. Punishmento Ethics of punishmento Response interruption and redirectiono Response cost25. Strengths/Deficits assessmentso Person-centered planningo Assessment tools26. Selecting and Implementing Interventionso State intervention goals in observable and measurable termso Identifying evidence-based practiceso Treatment integrityo Data-based monitoring27. Personnel Supervision and Managemento Behavior skills trainingo Performance monitoring28. Ethicso Responsibility to clientso Ethical responsibilities to colleagues and traineeso Ethical responsibilities in conducting research