Episode 219 - A Call to Action on Rekers and Lovaas w/ Dr. Sarah Campau + Dr. Matthew Capriotti (feat. Alan Haberman)

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In 2020 the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis posted an Expression of Concern regarding Rekers & Lovaas (1973) as a step in acknowledging behavior analysis’s complicity in the pseudoscience of conversion therapy. This week we’re joined by special guests, Drs. Sarah Campau and Matthew Capriotti, as well as Book Club Guy, Alan Haberman, to talk about what comes next. We review the controversy over the original paper, discuss public policy around supporting the LGBTQ+ community, and start planning how behavior analysis can kickstart new research that benefits sexual and gender minorities.

For more on the history of conversion therapy, Dr. Campau suggests the UnErased podcast.

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Conine, D.E., Campau, S.C., & Petronelli, A.K. (2022). LGBTQ+ conversion therapy and applied behavior analysis: A call to action. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 55, 6-18. doi: 10.1002/jaba.876.

Capriotti, M.R. & Donaldson, J.M. (2022). “Why don’t behavior analysts do something?” Behavior analysts’ historical, present, and potential future actions on sexual and gender minority issues. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 55, 19-39. doi: 10.1002/jaba.884

The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior & LeBlanc, L.A. (2020). Editor’s note: Societal changes and expression of concern about Rekers and Lovaas’ (1974) behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Behavior, 53, 1830-1836. doi: 10.1002/jaba.768

Rekers, G.A. & Lovaas, O.I. (1974). Behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 7, 173-190. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1974.7-173

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:19.5	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and
0:21.8	usually this is where we take our podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic
0:26.7	research, where every week we pick a topic and discuss relevant research articles related to
0:31.6	that topic. And this is typically where we put in like a little bit as we're doing our
0:34.9	introduction. But we have so many special guests here
0:39.1	today that we're going to skip the bit. We're going to get right into just introductions. Like a
0:43.2	Brady bunch zoom screen going on. Yes, exactly. Yep. We've got we got, you know, and Alice will also
0:49.1	be joining us too. So let's just get right into all of our special guests. Why don't we start with some of the regulars and then we'll go into our special guests.
0:59.4	So who's here?
1:00.4	I get to go next because you know it is 2022 still.
1:03.8	You know it.
1:05.1	Jackie.
1:05.9	It's Jackie.
1:06.5	I'm always here.
1:07.8	And it's me, Diana.
1:09.8	And then we are also joined. You know what? Let's break
1:12.4	tradition. How about our special guests introduce themselves? They're all fabulous people.
1:16.9	We're so happy to have them. Let's start with our book club buddy.
1:21.0	Alan Hamerman. Nice to be here. And then our two secrets, secret special guests, super special guests, they're guests, they're special.
1:29.8	Please introduce yourself special guests.
1:32.0	I'm Matt Capriotti.
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