Journey Home: The Clinical Behavior Analyst
A scientific advance can be brilliant and still go nowhere. Someone has to make it usable. (And, as above – eventually someone has to make it not look like a circuit board in a suitcase.) Someone has to understand the environment into which it will be introduced. Someone has to build the bridge between an important finding and getting people to make use of the finding.
Advancing Contextual Behavioral Science with Measurement of Verbal Behavior
Advancing Contextual Behavioral Science Measurement with Natural Language Processing By Angela Coreil, PhD, LP, BCBA One of the things that first drew me to Relational Frame Theory (RFT) was that it finally provided a behavior-analytic framework capable of addressing...
Why psychologists and therapists should learn clinical behavior analysis
Why Psychologists and Therapists Should Learn Clinical Behavior Analysis By Angela Coreil, PhD, LP, BCBA One of the most surprising things I've learned after years of clinical practice is that becoming a better therapist wasn't about learning another therapy. It was...
Working Toward Clinical Behavior Analysis: Practical Pathways for Behavior Analysts
Working Toward Clinical Behavior Analysis: Practical Pathways for Behavior AnalystsBy Angela Coreil, PhD, LP, BCBA One of the most common questions I receive from behavior analysts is surprisingly straightforward: "How do I get into clinical behavior analysis?"...
What is ‘clinically relevant behavior’: Sign or sample
Much of how ‘psychopathology’ is understood depends on whether ‘unusual’ behavior is determined a sign of an underlying condition or a sample of behavior within a particular context.
The ACT Practitioner’s Perspective on Adolescent Suicidality
by Amy R. Murrell, Ph.D. The paper summarized here, was written by myself and former students (Al-Jabari, Moyer, Novamo, and Connally), and published in the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy in 2014 examines the problem of...
Multi-trait Multi-method Assessment
Evaluate construct validity of the self-report inventory of generalized anxiety by interpreting all four sets of correlation coefficients within the multitrait-multimethod matrix that is obtained. Which, if any, of the four measures appears to possess adequate construct validity?
The Matrix Viz: A functional assessment of verbal behaving
Today I’m going to introduce a project that is one of many formulations of functional assessment we’ve been developing. The current formulation was first put to use more than a year ago with Benji Schoendorff, MSc and the Contextual Psychology Institute (CPI).
A Beginner’s Guide to Clinical Behavior Analysis (CBA) and Related Treatments (ACT, DBT, FAP)
What is Clinical Behavior Analysis?
Clinical Behavior Analysis (CBA) is at the intersection of behavior analysis and psychology. It is the application of behavioral principles to changing behaviors previously considered to fit in within the are of ‘mental health’. Clinical Behavior Analysis focuses on changing behavior through functional analysis and reinforcement of more adaptive behaviors
Finding Clinical Behavior Analysis: Part I
by Angela Coreil, PhD In my recent invited talk at CalABA on Clinical Behavior Analysis as a way of unifying the behavioral sciences, I alluded to a series of painful learning experiences that brought me to Clinical Behavior Analysis. My training path has been long...
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