Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Categorize treatments related to functions for positive and negative reinforcement, and positive and negative punishment; for social, tangible, and automatic contingencies; and for when the most salient stimulus is outside or inside the body
Identify the difference between behavior reduction that occurs from presenting a larger punisher (something bigger to worry about), replacement behavior (something better to do), or extinction (absence of the historic reinforcer)
Identify the biological precedence aversive control takes over positive control
Describe covert contingencies—that is, although not completely worked out, consider the utility of covert (internal) control for the organization of information (i.e., derived behavior such as stimulus equivalence and relational framing) and the maintenance of behavior occurring in prescribed programs (typically with positive control) and without any prescribed program (typically with aversive control)
Take data—without a count of the behavior you have nothing to consider
Describe and always consider multiple control as the potential explanation for a response
Describe the importance of holding information lightly and supporting an appreciation for how much more there is to know about influencing behavior with a constant (inductive) readiness to change our understanding of past data when new information suggests what we believe is incorrect
Describe the considerations that go into knowing when to refer by understanding potential controls, the danger of the behavior, and one's own skills |