Hello all, Allow me a moment to tell you about a new list serve that
I am starting and with it a new Special Interest Group for the
Assocation for Behavior Analysis International. It is the Behavioral
Counseling & Behavioral Coaching Special Interest group. Counseling
is a hybred discipline between education and psychology that focuses
on helping normal people with problems. Coaching is a similar
discipline; however, it focuses on people seeking to acheive a
specific life goal. Behaviorism is a philosophy of science based on
how the principles of learning explain how we come to know and be.
Behaviorism informs and is informed by the field of behavior
analysis. Both behaviorism and behavior analysis have contributed
greatly to th field of counseling and coaching. This list is
sponsored by the Behavior Analyst Online Special (www.behavior-
analyst-online.org ) Interest Group of the Association for Behavior
Analysis International (http://www.abainternational.org/ ) in
preperation for the information special interest group for Behavioral
Counseling and Behavioral Coaching.It focuses on the on going
contribution of behavioral principles to the field of counseling and
coaching. Some topics include Community Reinforcement Approach for
addictions, Community Reinforcement and Family Training Approach for
coaching spouses get those with addicitons into treatment, and
Behavioral Couples Counseling. As well as focus on career and
decision making counseling based on behavioral and social learning
models. Finally, the application of new 3rd generation behavior
therapies such as Functional Analyti Psychotherapy and Acceptance and
Committment Thrapy and Dialetical Behavior Therapy and thier
implication for counseling will be discussed. This list is open to
all counselors, coaches and behavior analysts who are interested. To
join the group: Post message:
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To support the start up, send to Majda <mseuss@....>.
It would be good if ten ABA:I members send supporting e-mail for this
group. Joe