Behavioral Change Procedures and Management I

Catalog description

This course is a prerequisite to subsequent courses in the applied behavior analysis course sequence. This course utilizes the concepts and foundations taught in the prerequisite courses in order to guide students towards developing the skills necessary in implementing evidence-based practices and selecting the appropriate procedures when targeting behaviors for change. The course will begin with an overview of intervention and will continue with an exploration of reinforcement-based interventions and establishing stimulus control. Students will then take an in-depth look at various instructional procedures including environmental arrangements, imitation, modeling, shaping, chaining, and equivalence-based instruction. Content will then focus on interventions to decrease target behaviors and will finally conclude with strategies to promote generalization and maintenance of behavior change.