Advanced Seminar in Applied Behavior Analysis: Organizational Management & Supervision

This seminar course is designed to provide candidates in the Special Education Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) subplan the content knowledge and coursework hours to meet the BCBA Test Content Outline (TCO) requirement to sit for the BCBA exam. Specifically, this course will overview issues related to Organizational Behavior Management, that focuses on staff management and supervision in the field of applied behavior analysis. Candidates will learn how to assess staff performance issues and implement/develop training protocol to ensure treatment integrity in the context of behavioral organizations. Additionally, this course will teach candidates to become effective BCBA field supervision and mentors to ensure organizational goals are met. Specifically, candidates will learn how to critically analyze factors that contribute to inadequate staff performance and develop strategies for improvement. Further, candidates will learn how to assess their own effectiveness as BCBA field supervisors using self-management strategies. The culminating experience involves the development of training protocols to improve procedural and treatment integrity for students with disabilities.

Fall, Spring

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