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Describing the function of behavior accurately is essential to good behavior management and teaching. Effective treatment plans are based upon accurate functional analyses and other assessments. WTF describes the general steps to these analyses and assessments so that parents and providers can have a better understanding of the FBA process.

Applied Behavior Analysis, the science that grew from B. F. Skinner's philosophy of Radical Behaviorism, has been as misunderstood as its founder. Often called anti-humanistic or somehow taking away freedom and autonomy, Applied Behavior Analysis is actually the polar opposite of its mischaracterizations. In I Can’t if I Don’t Know How: B. F. Skinner, Humanism, ABA and Promoting Freedom, psychologist and BCBA Dr. Bobby Newman carefully examines the history of Applied Behavior Analysis and Skinner's writings. Combining these writings with personal stories from his career, Dr. Newman ...

If ever there were anywhere that someone who was suffering from a mental illness or behavioral disability should expect to be welcomed, it would be at our religious institutions. Sadly, however, that is often not the case. In The Inherent Worth and Dignity of ALL Individuals: Encouraging Full Participation in Our Unitarian Universalist Congregations, Bobby Newman attempts to create a framework for helping religious institutions to consider the needs of people with mental illness and behavioral disabilities, along with the needs of the rest of the congregation. A framework is described for ...

Honor and sportsmanship are terms that are increasingly become thought of as quaint, and passe in a world where winning is everything. Forgetting these concepts, however, leads us to forget why we compete in the first place. In It's How You Play the Game, a call is made to appreciate these concepts, not just for sport, for life itself.

No Virtue in Accident is a book for students of utopian literature and behavioral psychology. It analyzes popular books in the utopian tradition from a behavioral perspective, and finds a proper place for Walden Two and behavioral thought within the utopian tradition.