February 2026 Preview

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Heeeeeey, it's Rob's birthday. Time to pick this month's theme!

Maybe it's the near decade's worth of podcasting, but this February, Rob decided that his impeding aging anniversary should also receive celebration in the form of "OOPS! All Rob picked articles". So, given carte blanche to talk about anything in the world of ABA, what did he choose? Well, first, he took the week off while we unlock last year's Winter Book Club on "The Science of Consequences" with a bonus interview with author Dr. Susan Schneider (interested in 2.5 CEs for free? Upgrading to the $10 level on Patreon is your answer). After that, he brings special guest, Danielle Yang, to the table to learn about the state of therapeutic role-playing games and how your weekly D+D game could be added into your ABA services. And finally, because it's been far too long and is one of the most mind-blowingly awesome procedures in his 20 years in the field, Rob brings back the Preschool Life Skills for a record-breaking THIRD time!

The best part about Rob's birthday is by just listening to these episodes, you've already gotten him all the gifts he could ever want.

NOTE: We talk a lot about the upcoming changes to the website. Well, due to some technical problems, we had to rush the new website news to...LAST WEEK! Hopefully abainsidetrack.com will take you straight there, but, if not, our new website is now HERE!

Articles for February 2026

(UNLOCKED) The Science of Consequences Book Club (feat. Dr. Susan Schneider)

Schneider, S.M. (2012). The science of consequences: How they affect genes, change the brain, and impact our world. Prometheus Books.

Role-Playing Games in Behavior Analysis w/ Danielle Yang

Arenas, D.L., Viduani, A., & Araujo, R.B. (2022). Therapeutic use of role-playing game (RPG) in mental health: A scoping review. Simulation and Gaming, 53, 285-311. doi: 10.1177/10468781211073720

Yuliawati, L., Wardhani, P.A.P., & Ng, J.H. (2024). A scoping review of tabletop role-playing game (TTPRG) as a psychological intervention: Potential benefits and future directions. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 17, 2885-2903. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S466664

Helbig, K.A., (2019). Evaluation of a role-playing game to improve social skills for individuals with ASD. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi]. Aquila Digital Community. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1673

Preschool Life Skills Three-view

Falligant, J.M. & Pence, S.T. (2017). Preschool Life Skills using the Response to Intervention model with preschoolers with developmental disabilities. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 3, 217-236. doi: 10.1037/bar0000056

Rees, R.E., Seel, C.J., Huxtable, B.G., & Austin, J.L. (2024). Using the Preschool Life Skills program to support skill development for children with trauma histories. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17, 693-708. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00892-z

Lee, H., Gunning, C., Leow, J., & Holloway, J. (2024). An evaluation of delivery of the parent Preschool Life Skills program via telehealth. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 57, 893-909. doi: 10.1002/jaba.2914

Transcript

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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.
0:19.9	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as
0:22.0	always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey everyone, it's Jackie McDonnell, 2026. Hello, and it's
0:28.6	Diana Perry Cruz. Jackie, you were kidnapped? You want to make sure everyone knows you were kidnapped
0:32.9	in 2026? I was kidnapped in 2026. Well, everybody, to our podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research, where every week we pick a topic and discuss it unless it's the end of the month if you're on our Patreon feed or the beginning of the month if you're on our free feed where we do a little preview of what's coming up in this, the month of
0:55.6	February, 2026, where we talk about everything that we're coming out with, some other news,
1:03.7	and all sorts of good stuff.
1:05.3	And then sometimes we just talk about nonsense because it's a preview, and it's fun for us.
1:10.7	Huzzah! So, this February, we have a theme month. We have a theme month. What was our last theme month? Don't know. I believe it was like nine years ago when we did... It's gotta be May. Yeah. I mean, July technically is kind of a theme month in that we have all guests.
1:28.2	So it's a little bit of a theme.
1:29.8	But I think that's probably the last, like, theme month.
1:32.3	I don't know. We do supervision September every September. So it's definitely that. Every year. Yeah. But for some reason, I don't know if it was because I just had topics I wanted to do and I shove them into February or because it just seemed to make sense because we're coming up on the
1:49.1	10-year anniversary in March and I thought let's celebrate birthdays this February.
1:52.7	We didn't really celebrate my birthday. Well, we didn't think about it. I thought about it first.
1:57.3	I think the problem is, in case, fun fact about a podcast is they get recorded ahead of time.
2:02.7	So if you're getting a podcast in mid-January,
2:05.2	it wasn't recorded the week before.
2:07.2	It might have been recorded in December,
2:09.4	especially around the holiday season.
2:11.1	I think we get very, very busy
2:12.3	and we record a lot of shows ahead of time.
2:14.9	So we didn't quite get the opportunity
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