Fifty Years in Behavior Analysis: Session 229 with Jose Rios

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This is a conversation I've really been looking forward to sharing with you. Jose Rios is a legend in our field, particularly if you're a behavior analyst in California, where he's based out of.

In this conversation, Jose recounts his more than 50 year career in providing ABA services to individuals with developmental disabilities. We cover the following:

How he got started in the field at the tender age of 17.
What the field of ABA was like in the early 70s.
What it takes to provide amazing experiences for group home residents and staff.
The founding of the Latino Association for Behavior Analysis.
The evolution of behavior support plans over the years.
Jose's intense mentoring program.
What makes for good presentations.

Jose is an avid reader, and we spent almost a half hour talking about our favorite fiction authors before hitting the record button. In the interview itself however, we do mention a few books and other resources that are more pertinent to the topic of Behavior Analysis, including:

The various works of Dr. Gary LaVigna.
The various works of Dr. John Lutzker.
Teaching dating skills to individuals with disabilities (Cuvo et al., 1985).
Vollmer et al. (1992). A content analysis of written behavior management programs.
Resonate, by Nancy Duarte.
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) 3rd Edition, by Garr Reynolds.
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch.
The Supervisor’s Guidebook: Evidence-Based Strategies for Promoting Work Quality and Enjoyment Among Human Service Staff, Reid & Parsons.

This conversation is like a lesson in the history of Applied Behavior Analysis, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to session 229 of the Behavioral Observations podcast.
0:04.3	In this conversation, I speak with Jose Rios, who's an absolute legend in our field, particularly if you're from California.
0:11.7	In this conversation, Jose recounts as more than 50-year career in providing ABA services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
0:19.3	In this podcast, we cover how we got started in the field
0:22.7	at the tender age of 17. We talk about what the field of ABA was like in the early 70s and its
0:29.0	perspectives on its evolution since then. We talk a lot about providing services in group home settings
0:35.8	and what it takes to provide amazing services
0:37.8	there. We talked about the founding of the Latino Association for Behavior Analysis,
0:42.9	the evolution of behavior support plans over the years, Jose's unique intense mentoring program,
0:48.9	what makes for good presentations. And then, of course, we finish with advice for the
0:54.0	newly minted BCBA. So there's a little something here for everyone, and you can consider this your, like a chapter in the history book of behavior analysis. So there's, it's a lot of interesting stories. And he's just a super fun guy to talk to. He's also an avid reader, and we spent almost a half an hour before actually hitting the
1:11.3	record button talking about our favorite fiction authors. In the interview itself, we do mention
1:16.6	several books and articles and other resources that are more pertinent to the topic, and I have
1:22.3	them in the show notes for this episode. So just go to behavioral observations.com and check out the show notes there.
1:30.5	We'll have all the links waiting for you. And if you're not already, when you get to the website,
1:36.8	there'll be a little pop-up thing. Go ahead and put your email in and hop on the email list.
1:41.4	Now, I promise I don't spam you with nonsense emails.
1:45.6	It won't be like signing up for Target or other sorts of places that just send you a couple of emails every day.
1:51.2	No, all I do is send out the show notes. I'll make occasional unrelated announcements, but for the most part, the email list is the purpose of it is to get you the show notes without having to go to behavioral
2:02.0	observations. So, in fact, the only reason you'd need to go to behavioral observations would be to,
2:08.3	if you needed CEUs, of course, and so you can just go to behavioral observations.com and
2:13.3	click the get-CeUs button. I've been adding a lot more recently, and I've got discounts for
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