Connections Behavior Planning and Intervention welcomes Amanda Chastain, BCBA, for a webinar on Verbal Behavior for Behavior Analysts!
This page describes the first session in a longer series of webinars. To register for the full series (at a discount), click here.
Need more information? Click Here for the full list of dates and session-specific abstracts and learning objectives.
Abstract:
What is RFT? How is it different from Skinner’s Verbal Behavior? Why does it matter?
In session 1, we will start ‘at the beginning’ by exploring B. F. Skinner’s initial take on Verbal Behavior and Murray Sidman’s contributions with Stimulus Equivalence. These discussions set the context for consideration of Relational Frame Theory as an extension of these concepts. We’ll wrap up with why this is worth understanding for Behavior Analysts, with direct connection to Early Behavior Intervention goals and programs.
The goal of each session is to give participants something that they can apply to their work right away.
About the Presenter:
Amanda Chastain, BCBA, completed her master’s degree in Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis) at California State University, Sacramento where she specialized in Skinner’s verbal behavior, stimulus equivalence, and bidirectional naming. After graduation, she received training and supervision in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy while working as a Senior Research Associate in an Applied Behavior Analysis lab at the University of Southern California, as a Program Director at an ABA agency in Los Angeles, and as a Lab Manager for the ACT/Prosocial lab based out of Florida Institute of Technology. Ms. Chastain values the dissemination of information to close the gap between research and practice around complex verbal behavior, often doing her part in the form of presentations, publications, and training workshops. Currently, she is working towards obtaining her Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Mark Dixon and Dr. Tamar Heller. Her current research focuses on complex verbal behavior, Relational Frame Theory, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Full Series Outline and Details: (includes all eight RFT and ACT sessions, registered separately here.)
A Crash Course in Complex Verbal Behavior Closing the Gap Between Research and Practice with Amanda Chastain, BCBA (click to download and view flier)
Session 1: Some Behavior Analytic Models of Verbal Behavior (free to attend)
- In session 1, we will start ‘at the beginning’ by exploring B. F. Skinner’s initial take on Verbal Behavior and Murray Sidman’s contributions with Stimulus Equivalence. These discussions set the context for consideration of Relational Frame Theory as an extension of these concepts. We’ll wrap up with why this is worth understanding for Behavior Analysts, with direct connection to Early Behavior Intervention goals and programs.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify when Skinner’s model for verbal behavior is useful and the limitation of its utility in teaching and understanding complex verbal behavior.
- Set up a basic equivalence-based instruction program.
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List types of derived relational responding beyond equivalence.
CEU’s included, and Cost to Attend:
- 1.5 CEU’s
- FREE to attend, with CEUs
For questions, challenges with registration, or any other needed information, please contact Dusty, Director of Continuing Education and ACE Coordinator for CBPI, LLC, at continuingeducation@connections-behavior.com.
Connections Behavior Planning & Intervention, LLC, is a BACB-Approved ACE Provider (Provider # OP-17-2781). The BACB does not directly sponsor or endorse this event, its speakers, or its content.
