Good News Friday!

Staff members from Imagine! Behavior Health Services (IBHS) will be participating in the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) in Seattle this upcoming Memorial Day. This event marks the first presentation by the IBHS team at this prestigious conference.

During the conference, IBHS team members will be presenting at a symposium entitled Welcome Back, MY LOVELY! Cumulative Graphs in the Analysis of Behavior. The presentations are the culmination of over two years of research by practitioners from IBHS and Learning Services.

The presentations will showcase cumulative graphing methods used exclusively by these two treatment programs to analyze behaviors that are normally difficult to assess using other conventional measuring methods. Cumulative graphing methods have led to interesting discoveries about behavioral mechanisms and how they are involved in behavioral treatment plans, as well as selective effects of medications on behavioral mechanisms. These discoveries may lead to new ways of understanding behavioral processes and ultimately to more successful treatment outcomes.

The presentations for the ABAI conferences are listed below, along with the authors. Author names in capital letters indicate the presenter.

Using Cumulative Graphs to evaluate the Effects of Medication Adjustments Combined with Extinction Procedures to Decrease Aggression

(JEFF KUPFER, Dixie Eastridge, Randall Buzan & Jill Castro)

Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior from Caregiver Attention in the Social Networking Website Facebook

(ZACH MAPLE & Leigh Schrimpf)

Competing Reinforcement Contingencies and the Myth of Replacement Behaviors

(TERESA CAMILLE KOLU, Amanda Ryan, Zach Maple & Jennifer McLaughlin)

Thanks to Jeff Kupfer for sharing this information with me, and way to go, IBHS!