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The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

How to Make Career Decisions as a BCBA: Apollo Case Study Series 12

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

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this 12th and final installment in the Apollo Case Study Series, Dr. Jim Moore joins me along with Lauren Elliott, Jeanne Ambrose, and Dr. Lyndsy Macri

In the first few minutes of the podcast, Lauren fields some follow up questions from our episode on DRO interventions. Huge thanks to Jenna Mazzillo for sending in these great questions (and by the way, be sure to follow her in Instagram at @abanaturally). 

We then moved into a more free flowing discussion of how to make good career decisions as a BCBA. Specifically, when looking for job opportunities, what things should candidates prioritize? From pay to caseloads to benefits and culture, there's no shortage of things to consider. 

Also, what about supporting career progression? Work/life balance? 

We talk about all of these things and more, and discuss how each of the panelists have navigated these topics in their careers at Apollo. 

If you are interested in learning more about Apollo or want to connect with the Founder & CEO, Kim Dean, or Chief Clinical Officer, Jim Moore, you can find them on LinkedIn here and here.  To follow Apollo on Instagram, click here, and to learn more about Apollo's locations and services, click here

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior

0:14.0

analysts.

0:15.0

Now here's your host, Matt Sequoria. Matt Secoria.

0:35.8

All right, we're back with the 12th and final installment of the Apollo case study series.

0:41.9

I'm here with a group of amazing behavior analysts, and we're going to, I'm going to hand it over to Dr.

0:43.3

Jim Moore here in just a second.

0:48.3

He's going to do introductions, but Lauren Elliott's with us amongst others.

0:56.7

And I want to just take a minute to follow up on the last episode that we did on DRO. And if you haven't listened to an episode, I would just go back to that and check that one out. I thought it was a

1:00.9

pretty fun episode. What I liked about that episode, too, is I thought it was very practical.

1:06.0

And I think it's something that would resonate to a lot of folks who are out there working in

1:10.3

clinical settings who have individuals who have behavior problems and, you know, might fit this

1:16.7

type of profile of a learner who'd benefit from that intervention.

1:20.0

So, again, for those reasons and others, I thought that episode was particularly important.

1:25.5

So go back and check that out.

1:26.5

But I did have a listener

1:28.8

send in a few questions on the topic of DRO. And I'm just going to, they're all kind of related.

1:36.9

And I'm going to ask Lauren to answer them. And so I'm just going to kind of read them all.

1:41.3

And then you can kind of proceed with, because I think there's perhaps some general responses that might be applicable to many of the points that the listener made.

1:49.3

So here we go.

1:51.1

So the question starts with, I was wondering if the learners had access to other reinforcement during the DRO interval besides the item they were working towards.

1:59.4

For example, I remember one of the learners earned Google Maps at the end of the interval.

2:04.1

But were there other reinforcers the learner was allowed to access before the timer went off? So that's question one.

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