January 2026 Preview
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, everyone! We kick off the (almost) 10th year of ABA Inside Track with a review of our recent holiday activities then get right back into our podcast research discussion with a bevy of amazing guests. First up we delve into the new (for behavior analysts) work of motivational interviewing with Dr. Monica Gilbert. Then we have three-guests-for one with Dr. Stephanie Peterson, Dr. Rebecca Eldridge, and Dr. Neil Deochand to learn about risk assessment and their development of the FARADT tool. Then we take pity on the least popular experimental design, the changing criterion, by giving it its own episode.
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Articles for January 2026
Motivational Interviewing w/ Dr. Monica Gilbert
Plattner, C. & Anderson, C. (2024). Creating a therapeutic alliance with caregivers: An introduction to motivational interviewing. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-00948-8
Christopher, P.J. & Dougher, M.J. (2009). A behavior-analytic account of motivational interviewing. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 149-161. doi: 10.1007/BF03392180
Risk Assessment w/ Dr. Stephanie Peterson, Dr. Rebecca Eldridge, + Dr. Neil Deochand
Wiskirchen, R.R., Deochand, N., & Peterson, S.M. (2017). Functional analysis: A need for clinical decision support tools to weight risks and benefits. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 17, 325-333. doi: 10.1037/bar0000088
Deochand, N., Eldridge, R.R., & Peterson, S.M. (2020). Toward the development of a functional analysis risk assessment decision tool. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 13, 978-990. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00433-y
Schroeder, A.C., Peterson, S.M., Mahabub, M.B., & Dresch, M.K. (2025). A pilot evaluation of expert and novice use of the functional analysis risk assessment decision tool. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 18, 811-825. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00433-y
The Changing Criterion Design
Klein, L.A., Houlihan, D., Vincent, J.L., & Panahon, C.J. (2017). Best practices in utilizing the changing criterion design. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 10, 52-61. doi: 10.1007/s40617-014-0036-x
De Luca, R.V. & Holborn, S.W. (1992). Effects of a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule with changing criteria on exercise in obese and nonobese boys. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 671-679. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1992.25-671
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. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as |
| 0:24.0 | always are my fabulous co-hosts. Oh, hey there, Rob. It's me Jackie McDonald. And it's me, |
| 0:31.6 | Diana Perry Cruz. Hi, hi, hi, hi. Well, we are here doing our behavior analytic podcast in which every week we pick a topic and discuss relevant research articles, except if it's the first of the month on our free feed or the last of the month, if you are one of our patrons, where you get a little amuse-boosh in the form of a preview, talking about everything that's going on for us and what's coming out in the next month |
| 0:55.0 | so that you can read ahead if you so choose. And this is our preview for January 2026. What? |
| 1:05.0 | So it sounds so great. I can't wait for 2026. I think maybe that's why I tried to give myself an adjective. |
| 1:11.7 | Was I going to be your humble host or your horrible host or your hairy host? I don't know. I stopped for a second and then I realized that's not a thing I do. So I just said my name. You'd think after nearly two years of it. Smart, you could just, I'd be like, I'd get it down. And then I think I've gotten in a habit of, I've overthinking our intros, |
| 1:29.7 | and then I just don't know how to, don't know how to start the show. |
| 1:31.8 | It's really, really bad. |
| 1:33.2 | My stimulus control for a starting show is surprisingly weak. |
| 1:37.7 | Depressing. |
| 1:38.8 | Oh, well, but what's not depressing is our slate of episodes for this new year. |
| 1:43.8 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, happy New Year. |
| 1:48.1 | Happy New Year. |
| 1:48.9 | Full disclosure, to get this out in time because Christmas falls on like the day that |
| 1:53.9 | everything we tend to do in our organization, all the holidays are those dates. |
| 1:57.9 | We're recording this a little bit before the new year. |
| 2:01.3 | So we hopefully all are in 2026 when you're listening to this. Nothing weird happened. They didn't change the |
| 2:05.6 | calendars or anything like that. But we'll assume that that's going to be, that's going to |
| 2:09.7 | be okay for the next next couple weeks till this comes out for y'all. Y2K5. Yeah, |
| 2:15.5 | Y2K5. |
| 2:17.0 | Why don't we start us off by what everyone could expect in the podcast feed over the next month? |
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