Although we are still seeking a competent webmaster, the HSF-SIG website
has been updated!

http://www.wju.edu/academics/psy/sig/index.htm


--
Michael A. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., BCBA
Associate Professor of Psychology
Wheeling Jesuit University
316 Washington Avenue
Wheeling, WV  26003

Phone:  304.243.4429
E-mail:  mkirkpatrick@...
Web:  http://www.wju.edu/academics/psy/faculty/kirkpatrick.asp

Position Announcement (MO, health)

Posted by: "James Cantor" James_Cantor@...   james_cantor

Wed Aug 1, 2007 11:00 am (PST)

Hello all,



The Association for Behavior Analysis International has a special
interest group on behavior analysis in behavioral medicine. If you are
interested in joining go to http://www.baocommunity.org/mailman/listinfo



Thanks,



Joe

Hello all,

This is a group for recent graduates in behavior analysis. It is to
help them to adjust to the field.  It is sponsored by teh Behavior
Analyst Online organization in conjunction with the forming
Practioners Issue SIG at ABA...

To subscribe, go to: http://www.baocommunity.org/mailman/listinfo/627-
newpractitioners


Joe

Hello all,

If you are a member of ABA:I- please send an e-mail to Majda Seuss
mseuss@... stating that you support the development of
the Practitioner Issues In Behavior Analysis SIG.
http://www.abapracticesig.org/index.htm


This SIG will focus on practioners issues as its central theme.

Thank you,

Joe

The latest issue of the open access journal the Behavior Analyst Today
is now available at http://www.behavior-analyst-online.org/

Enjoy.
Joe

Hello all,

The latest issue of the open access journal the International
Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 3.2 is now available
online at:

www.behavior-analyst-online.org

The table of contents is:
International Journal of Behavioral and Consultation Therapy
VOLUME NO. 3, ISSUE NO. 2

Page 166: Behavioral Interventions for Trauma and Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder - Christina M. Hassija & Matt J. Gray

Page 176: State of the science in the Assessment and Management of
Severe Behavior Problems in School Settings: Behavior Analytic
Consultation to Schools - Michael M Mueller & Ajamu Nkosi

Page 203: The role of fear appeals in improving driver safety: A
review of the effectiveness of feararousing(threat) appeals in road
safety advertising - Lewis, I., Watson, B., Tay, R., & White, K.M.

Page 223: Positive Behavior Support in the Classroom: Facilitating
Behaviorally Inclusive Learning Environments - Terrance M. Scott,
Kristy Lee Park, Jessica Swain-Bradway, Eric Landers

Page 236: Moving Behavioral Science From Efficacy to Effectiveness -
Denise Hallfors and Hyunsan Cho

Page 251: Cigarette Smoking among African American Youth from Single
Mother Homes: Examining the Roles of Maternal Smoking and Positive
Parenting within an Extended Family Framework - Sarah E. Foster,
Alecia A. Zalot, & Deborah J. Jones

Page 266: Factors That Predict Who Takes Advanced Courses In
Cognitive Therapy - Artemios Pehlivanidis

Page 271: A Comprehensive Literature Review of Mode Deactivation
Therapy Marsha Ann Houston, Jack A. Apsche & Christopher K. Bass

Page 310: Enhancing Accountability in Behavioral Consultation
Through the use of Single-Case Designs John S. Carlson, Ph.D. ,
Natasha K. Segool, M.A., Tara M. Brinkman, M.A.

Page 322: A review of The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach
Children with Autism and Related Disorders by Mary Lynch Barbera,
RN, MSN, BCBA with Tracy Rasmussen - Review by:
Kimberly Barnes M.S. CCC-SLP

Page 324: Letter to the Editor - International Journal of Behavioral
and Consultation Therapy -Jean Mercer and Monica Pignotti

Is now part ofthe BAO site. Check out the crowning issue at
http://www.behavior-analyst-online.org of this open access journal.

Joe

Contents
***********************************************

Behavioral Development Bulletin - a BAO Journals Publication
Volume 13, Spring 2007

Introduction to the Model of Hierarchical Complexity

Michael Lamport Commons



Adult Behavioral Developmental Stages of Attachment

Patrice Marie Miller and Suzanne Lee



How Early Negative Caregiving Experiences Relate to Stage of
Attachment

Michael Lamport Commons and Patrice Marie Miller



Stages of Infant Development, as Illustrated by Responses to the Peek-
a-boo Game in Infants

Patrice Marie Miller and Michael Lamport Commons



How are the Processes by Which People Become Attached Influenced by
Stage of Development?

Patrice Marie Miller and Michael Lamport Commons



Changing Stage for Students, Teachers, and Schools

Michael Lamport Commons



Bringing About Changes in Workplace Behavior

Michael Lamport Commons



Assessment of Thinking in Adult Learners

Darlene Eleanor Crone-Todd



*************************************

Hello all,

JEIBI 4.2 www.behavior-analyst-online.org  is now available... here
is the index to this edition:



Page 377: Editorial - Introduction to Volume 4.2 of The Journal of
Early and Intensive Behavioral Interventions - R. Douglas Greer.



Page 379:  Child and Adult Social-Emotional Benefits of Response-
Contingent Child Learning Opportunities - Carl J. Dunst, Melinda
Raab. Carol M. Trivette, Cindy Parkey, Mary Gatens, Linda L. Wilson,
Jennie French, Deborah W. Hamby



Page: 392: The Effects of Daily Intensive Tact Instruction on the
Emission of Pure Mands and Tacts in Non-Instructional Settings by
Three Preschool Children with Developmental Delays - Jo Ann Pereira-
Delgado & Mara Oblak



Page 412:  Generalized Selection-Based Auditory Matching and the
Emergence of the Listener Component of Naming - Jeanne Marie
Speckman Collins, Hye Suk Park , & R. Douglas Greer



Page 430:  The Effects of Observational Training on the Acquisition
of Reinforcement for Listening - Tracy Reilly Lawson & Darcy Walsh.



Page 453:  The Effects of Peer-Yoked Contingencies on Observational
Learning and the Collateral Emergence of Naming - Mindy Bunya
Rothstein and Grant Gerard Gautreaux.



Page 471:  The Effects of Implementing a Classwide Peer Tutoring
Model on Social Approvals and Disapprovals Emitted During
Unstructured Free Time - Tracy Reilly-Lawson & Gabrielle
Trapenberg



Page 483:   The Effects of Writer Immersion on Teaching the Function
of Writing with Middle School Students - Yasmin J. Helou, Jasmine
Lai & Victoria L. Sterkin.



Page 500: Improving Treatment Outcomes for Oppositional Defiant
Disorder in Young Children - Elizabeth P. McKenzie



Page 511:  Behavioral Parent-Training Approaches for the Treatment
of Bedtime Noncompliance in Young Children - Camilo Ortiz & Lauren
McCormick



Page 526:  Book Review - The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to teach
children with autism and related disorders by Mary Lynch Barbera
with Tracy Rasmussen - Mary Jane Weiss.

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Joe

Fellow Behavior Analysts,

There is a May, 2007 deadline health care providers to
obtain an NPI # by the Administrative Simplicfication providions of the
HIPPAA act. This can be done online (for free) at: https://nppes.
cms.hhs.gov/ NPPES/Welcome. do

Some analysts have gone to get their NPI and found the following
situation:

There are options to apply under the taxonomy of Behavioral
Health & Social Service Providers: psychologists (with behavioral or DD
specializations) or to apply uder the taxonomy: Other Service
Providers -
Specialist. As some of us are not licensed psychologists, the former
option
appears to be a misrepresentation, and the latter option is not very
specific. Some members of our field have contacted customer support
regarding this and asking that a taxonomy which would include Behavior
Analysts be added (perhaps having a space for the BCBA Certificant # as
well). Below is a letter sent to customer service. While we may not need
this NPI to provide services, it may help our field to have the
classification added (especially as more and more funding agencies are
picking us up as providers.). It may behoove us to all contact customer
service via e-mail, or call the help line to ask that a classification
be
made for Behavior Analysts. Thank you!

E-mail: customerservice@ npienumerator. com or call: 1-800-465-3203

Sample Letter:

Dear Customer Service,

I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (www.bacb.com) with a
certification
number, EIN for the agency, and provider contract agreements in good
standing over the last several years with Medicaid Waiver in Tennessee.

I have attempted to comply with medicaid rules requiring that my agency
obtain an NPI from you in order to continue to work with children and
adults
with developmental disabilities through Tennessee's Medicaid Waiver
System
and Tennessee Behavioral Health.

When I attempt to obtain the NPI for my group, I am unable to log in as
Board Certified Behavior Analyst is not an option in your system. The
closest thing you have to what I do is psychologist, specializing in
work
with people with developmental disabilities. This, however is not
appropriate as I am not, nor are the colleagues in my group, licensed
psychologists and we do not wish to represent ourselves as such.

Many state medicaid waiver systems now approve Board Certified Behavior
Analysts as providers of Applied Behavior Analysis services and many
people
have benefitted from those services. Please help us comply with the NPI
requirement so that the children and adults with special needs who
require
our services do not experience a lapse in service due to system problems
with obtaining an NPI. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward
to
hearing from you and learning how best to comply with this requirement.

Fellow Behavior Analysts,

There is a May, 2007 deadline health care providers to
obtain an NPI # by the Administrative Simplicfication providions of the
HIPPAA act. This can be done online (for free) at: https://nppes.
cms.hhs.gov/ NPPES/Welcome. do

Some analysts have gone to get their NPI and found the following
situation:

There are options to apply under the taxonomy of Behavioral
Health & Social Service Providers: psychologists (with behavioral or DD
specializations) or to apply uder the taxonomy: Other Service
Providers -
Specialist. As some of us are not licensed psychologists, the former
option
appears to be a misrepresentation, and the latter option is not very
specific. Some members of our field have contacted customer support
regarding this and asking that a taxonomy which would include Behavior
Analysts be added (perhaps having a space for the BCBA Certificant # as
well). Below is a letter sent to customer service. While we may not need
this NPI to provide services, it may help our field to have the
classification added (especially as more and more funding agencies are
picking us up as providers.). It may behoove us to all contact customer
service via e-mail, or call the help line to ask that a classification
be
made for Behavior Analysts. Thank you!

E-mail: customerservice@ npienumerator. com or call: 1-800-465-3203

Sample Letter:

Dear Customer Service,

I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (www.bacb.com) with a
certification
number, EIN for the agency, and provider contract agreements in good
standing over the last several years with Medicaid Waiver in Tennessee.

I have attempted to comply with medicaid rules requiring that my agency
obtain an NPI from you in order to continue to work with children and
adults
with developmental disabilities through Tennessee's Medicaid Waiver
System
and Tennessee Behavioral Health.

When I attempt to obtain the NPI for my group, I am unable to log in as
Board Certified Behavior Analyst is not an option in your system. The
closest thing you have to what I do is psychologist, specializing in
work
with people with developmental disabilities. This, however is not
appropriate as I am not, nor are the colleagues in my group, licensed
psychologists and we do not wish to represent ourselves as such.

Many state medicaid waiver systems now approve Board Certified Behavior
Analysts as providers of Applied Behavior Analysis services and many
people
have benefitted from those services. Please help us comply with the NPI
requirement so that the children and adults with special needs who
require
our services do not experience a lapse in service due to system problems
with obtaining an NPI. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward
to
hearing from you and learning how best to comply with this requirement.

Hello all,

The latest issue of the open access journal Speech-Language Pathology
and Applied Behavior Analysis is now available online at
www.behavior-analyst-online.org This issue has a good article on pica
and functional communication training. So stop by and check it out.


Thanks,

Joe

Hello all,

The latest issue of the open access journal- the Behavior Analyst Today
is now available on line at www.behavior-analyst-online.org So stop by
and check it out.

Joe

Hello all,

The latest issue of the open access journal - the
Journal of Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention
is now online at www.behavior- analyst-online. org This
issue has some good articles on functional analysis to
increase academic engangement and reduce classroom
disruption, as well as a cost benefit analysis article
on treating children with disruptive disorders. In
addition, some good articles on self-injury in autism.
So if you get the chance stop by and downlaod your
copy.

Joe

Hello all,

The Behavior Analyst Online organization www.behavior-analyst-
online.org is in the process of starting a new journal- The Journal
of Behavior Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness, and Medicine in
2008. This is just a reminder that at this point, the journal is open
for buisness. In addition, the editoral board has an open call for
papers.

The mision of Behavioral Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness, and
Medicine (BAHSFM) is the application of behavioral principles for
promoting wellness, enhancing fitness, and sports skills development,
and ameliorating disease.  The bi-directional interaction between
physiology and behavior can be effectively mediated through the
application of elementary principles of behavior.  Behavior analysis
has thereby exerted its influence in the fields of health and
medicine, as well as in the enhancement of the safe and skillful
performance that in turn facilitates well-being.  Examples include
but are not limited to the areas of exercise and dietary compliance,
smoking cessation, stress reduction, diabetes management, obesity
treatment, and the development of sport performance and safety skills
that bring about healthy reinforcement-rich lifestyles less
vulnerable to disease.  This journal aims to foster a greater
understanding of the impact of behavior analysis on health, sports,
fitness, and behavioral medicine and seeks to publish conceptual and
research articles in these areas.  In addition, we seek to publish
literature reviews and articles focused on behavior analytic
contributions to health policy and problem reduction.

SO if you believe that you have an article that is suitable for this
journal, send it our way. You can e-mail it to me directly at
jcautilli2003@...

Thanks,

Joe Cautilli, Ph.D.

P.S. Please stop by www.behavior-analyst-online.org and check out the
new site look.

Hello all,

   Behavior Analysis Online (www.behavior-analyst-online.org )has now
entered into a new phase in its evolution and growth. We have moved
from a small but visible website to becoming a key special interest
group within the Association for Behavior Analysis International.

      In addition to the above in 2008, we will be releasing two new
journals. They are The Journal of Behavior Analysis in Health,
Sports, Fitness, and Medicine and   The Journal of Behavior Analysis
of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention. We are currently
seeking articles to fill these new journals. The mission of the
journals are as stated below:

The Journal of Behavioral Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness and
Medicine will be appearing in 2008.  Behavioral Analysis in Health,
Sports, Fitness, and Medicine (BAHSFM) is a journal for those
interested in the application of behavioral principles for promoting
wellness, enhancing fitness, and sports skills development, and
ameliorating disease.  The bi-directional interaction between
physiology and behavior can be effectively mediated through the
application of elementary principles of behavior.  Behavior analysis
has thereby exerted its influence in the fields of health and
medicine, as well as in the enhancement of the safe and skillful
performance that in turn facilitates well-being.  Examples include
but are not limited to the areas of exercise and dietary compliance,
smoking cessation, stress reduction, diabetes management, obesity
treatment, and the development of sport performance and safety skills
that bring about healthy reinforcement-rich lifestyles less
vulnerable to disease.  This journal aims to foster a greater
understanding of the impact of behavior analysis on health, sports,
fitness, and behavioral medicine and seeks to publish conceptual and
research articles in these areas.  In addition, we seek to publish
literature reviews and articles focused on behavior analytic
contributions to health policy and problem reduction.

The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment
and Prevention (JBA-OVTP)  "The mission of this new journal will be
to highlight the role of behavior analysis in adult and juvenile
crime prevention, assessment of offenders including risk assessment,
and treatment programs from a behavioral orientation including but
not limited to the use of behavioral counseling, collaborative goal
setting, contingency management, functional assessment, functionally
based interventions, respondent conditioning and counter conditioning
procedures, functional analytic psychotherapy and acceptance and
commitment therapy. The journal will also place a major focus
articles on that present behavior analytic and social learning models
of the development of criminal behavior, the behavioral treatment of
victims, victimology from a behavior analytic perspective, behavioral
interventions for violent crime, functional assessment of offender
motivation, and other types of criminal activity, including
behavioral approaches to the reduction of terrorism and insurgency
reduction. We see all of these topics as suitable for publication in
this journal. In addition, the journal will publish articles on
behavior analysis in the treatment of the offender that are policy
oriented. Articles on forensic behavior analysis, testifying, due
process, and behavioral profiling of criminal behavior will be
considered. Finally, organizational behavior management and positive
behavioral support articles dealing with system change issues in
schools and criminal institutions will also be considered.


So if you have something that you think is appropriate please feel
free to send it our way.

Joe

Hello all,

This is just to let you know that the new issue of the open access
journal IJBCT is now available online www.behavior-analyst-online.org
Some really good articles on a Health compliance model, Functional
behavioral assessment for ES children, Acceptance and committment
therapy  for parents of autistic children, Teaching Family homes,
trauma focused exposure therapy, and multidemensional foster care. As
always it is at no cost to readers, so stop by and check it out.


Joe

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Hello all,

I just started a group for policy analysis and behavior analysis. If
you are interested:

The group is for behavior analysts in all areas of research, education,
and clinical work who are grappling with the policy implications of
their work. The group discusses public policy, conducting policy
analysis, and relating cost and benefit information to policy makers
and consumers.

Group Email Addresses
Post message: behavioranalysisandpublicpolicy@yahoogroups.com
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Joe

Behavior and Social Issues is an independent journal. It just published
an interesting article on the rise of Biological Psychiatry. I think
that people who believe that a conspiricacy exists so that
psychologists make less , might be interested. Anyhow it is the first
two aricles one by Wyaat & Midkiff and the other by Wong:

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php?
journal=bsi&page=index

I thought that they were interesting and tell a part of the story that
most don't speak about.

Joe

I believe this would be a wonderful study. Behaviroal weight programs lead
to a 20% weight reduction but the maintence is a problem:

Drew A. Anderson, Angela M. Simmons and Suzanne M. Milnes (2005):
Interventions For Weight Reduction: Facing the Maintenance Problem - IJBCT,
1.(4), Page 276 www.behavior-analyst-online.org


Anderson, D. A.,  Shapiro, J. R.,  &  Lundgren J. D.  (2001) The Behavioral
Treatment of Obesity. The Behavior Analyst Today, 2 (2), 133
www.behavior-analyst-online.org

So a behavioral development model is really needed. As for IV, I think that
you could set up a coding system like wieght watchers and score it over the
course of the day. Although this would take alot of time.


Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "fbuono123" <fbuono123@...>
To: <B-fit@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: [B-fit] San Diego / Possible help


>
> Hello HSF members,
>
> This is my first posting being apart of this community, and I have
> many questions and ideas I would like to share.
>
> The article by Flemming on Behavior Analysis in obesity assessment and
> Intervention... can that be found in JABA or another published journal?
>
> I am interested in starting a study which looks at parents of children
> with autism, who are lower functioning and obese.  The study would
> focus on if the parents would reinforce negative behavior by feeding
> or giving into the child's requests i.e. tangible items.  I am still
> doing research on this topic, by reading published articles in JABA, I
> was hoping that we can start a discussion on this, or I could get a
> little help, focusing on the specific IV and the DV.
>
> For San Diego, I would love to teach a Martial Arts class.  I want to
> see if anyone has interest in teaching the event before I signed up
> for it.
>
>
> I hope this finds everyone well, and have a wonderful rest of the
> weekend.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Frank Buono
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> To Post a message, send it to:   fitness-sig@eGroups.com
> To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to:
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hello all,

As most of you know, we are trying to get the BAO site to become a Special
Interest Group of ABA. We are prepared to go infront of the ABA Council but
it seems that we are a few e-mails short...If you are an ABA member, please
take a moment to write ABA a short e-mail supporting our joining to "Majda
Seuss" <mseuss@...>. Just something to the effect:

"I believe that the Behavior Analyst Online organization would be an
excellent special interest group at ABA:I"

Thanks,

Joe
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