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| Behavior Analytic Training for Health, Life, Fitness, and Peak Personal Performances |
| Friday, May 26, 2017 |
| 4:00 PM–7:00 PM |
| Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall C |
| Area: CBM/PRA; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Stephen Ray Flora, Ph.D. |
| STEPHEN RAY FLORA (Youngstown State University) |
| Description: As obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other health problems are at epidemic proportions for many populations, including populations served by behavior analysts, it is vital that behavior analysts learn to apply behavior analysis to ameliorate these problems and to promote healthy lifestyles as effectively as possible. Medical, behavioral, and psychological benefits of exercise, athletic participation, physical fitness are covered. The workshop will teach participants to use applied behavior analysis principles to objectively access, and optimally improve their own, or clients' physical fitness, health, and, if desired, athletic performances. Emphasis will be placed on behavior analytic gradual change techniques; optimal goal setting parameters; objective, data based analysis and decision making; and on how the use of behavioral analytic experimental designs, such as multiple baselines across situations and bounded changing criterion designs, may not just be used to measure change, but actually facilitate effective behavioral change. A focus will be on web based, fitness "personal quantification" tools (Strava, fitbit, etc) from a behavior analytic and ethical perspective. Although millions post personal fitness data, for ethical and legal purposes an explicit informed consent wavier of privacy should be obtained before any devices are used with clients. Even with consent ethical considerations are necessary. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to: (1) State many of the behavioral, psychological, and medical benefits of physical fitness, athletic participation, and living a healthy lifestyle; (2) Perform functional assessment of current health and fitness related behaviors; (3) Perform task analyses of healthy eating behaviors; safe, effective exercise; and skilled athletic performances; (4) Identify personalized reinforcers, motivations, incentives, and values for healthy lifestyles, physical fitness and athleticism; (5) Understand the importance of, and how to effectively use, goal setting, task analysis, pinpointing; (6) Understand how to identify skill gaps,how to set realistically achievable goals,and how to effectively use publicly posted goals to achieve fitness and optimal athletic performance; (7)Use behavior analytic experimental designs to not only measure and access behavioral change but to facilitate health, fitness, and athletic behavioral changes; (8) Use the concepts of optimal physiological arousal, periodization, and super compensation in designing a personalized training program; (9) Analyze and use web-based, social media tools as health and fitness aids; (10) State ethical and legal dilemmas and dangers of using commercial internet based personal quantification; (11) Write an informed consent covering commercial personal quantification usage; (12) Use data collection, charting, and graphing to optimize fitness and improve eating related behaviors. |
| Activities: Participants will be guided though presented information with PowerPoint slides, worksheets and lecture handouts that will provide participants with the information necessary learn the medical, behavioral, and psychological benefits of fitness and develop effective programs for improving health, physical fitness, diet behaviors, and healthy lifestyles; develop effective programs to optimize athletic performance; to use Behavior Analytic Experimental Designs to access and facilitate desired behavioral change: and state ethical and legal dilemmas and dangers of using commercial internet based personal quantification. Write an informed consent covering commercial personal quantification usage. |
| Audience: The target audience is board certified behavior analysts (BCBA), BCaBAs, psychologists, personal trainers, and others interested in learning to use behavior analytic procedures to promote healthy lifestyles, fitness, or to optimize elite performance. Professionals with a strong interest in behavioral medicine, or health and fitness will also benefit. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |