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The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Practical Functional Assessment: Session 94 with Greg Hanley

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

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Greg Hanley - the most popular Behavioral Observations guest by quite a bit - returns to the show for a fourth time, and this may be my favorite conversation with him yet! In this episode, we talk about the following: Why he started his new consultancy, FTF Behavioral Consulting, How he arrived at the decision to leave his academic post at Western New England University, Why he chose to "re-brand" the IISCA approach - which he now refers to as Practical Functional Assessment, How the PFA model has evolved over time, What should students and practitioners make regarding the divergent views between the Standard Functional Analysis and the Practical Functional Assessment models, How the PFA model can be construed as Trauma-Informed treatment, The BALANCE parent training protocol, What it's like to have PFA referenced in the 3rd edition of Cooper, Heron, and Heward, How Greg prepares for a conference presentation (in which we reference Pat Friman's contributions), What it's like to be an "ABA Rock Star," Lastly, we take several questions from The Behavioral Observations Membership Group. In answering these questions, Greg provides valuable insight into the nuances of this assessment and treatment approach for problem behavior. Greg cites a number of studies, and instead of listing them out here, I'd rather direct you to the website he's built to disseminate this work. There, you'll find a list of publications on this topic. Here's a list of a few other resources and trainings: The Facebook group for BCBAs Using the IISCA, The training event he and his colleagues are hosting on October 5th, in Worcester, MA, A two-part workshop on the BALANCE protocol at this year's NJ Autism Society's annual conference (see events B22 and B33), OK, I couldn't help myself, here is a paper that Greg mentioned not found on his site: Van Haaren (2015). Session 93 is brought to you by: Behavior University. Behavior University provides university-quality continuing education for everyday practitioners. To learn more about their CE offerings, discounts for podcast listeners, etc... please visit behavioruniversity.com/observations. The First Annual Tate Behavioral Conference taking place on October 25th in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring presentations by Megan Miller, Ryan O'Donnell, Yours Truly, and Kim Berens. It will also include a live recording of the Behavioral Observations Podcast with my interview with Kim Berens. Here are a few other important details: 6 BACB CE credits (including 1.5 Ethics CEs) Oh, and save 15% off of your registration by using the promo code, "Matt" Did I mention that there's a free lunch? GoLotus. Go Lotus is an intuitive and easy to use, practice management system. It handles every aspect of practice management from data collection, to scheduling and billing, and more. It is so simple your entire team can be up and running in less than an hour. Listeners who use the promo code MATT, the first 100 people will receive 90 days of our data trackers completely free. And by signing up, you’ll then receive an additional discount of 25% off the first 12 months. For more info, head over to golotus.com/register.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. If you're anywhere in the Northeastern United States on October 25th, 2019, please join me at the first annual Tate Behavioral Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts.

0:15.7

This will be a single-track conference that features podcasts favorites such as Megan Miller, Ryan O'Donnell, and Kim Barron's.

0:22.3

And I'll be doing my own talk as well. I'm going to share some observations and lessons that I've

0:26.4

learned with this whole podcasting experience and also be trying to summarize the advice for the

0:33.3

newly minted that usually happens at the end of each episode.

0:42.6

So I'm in the process of preparing it right now, and I'm really excited to share it with you.

0:51.8

We close the event with a live taping of the Behavioral Observations podcast in which I'll be interviewing Dr. Kim herself.

0:55.7

So a good time should be had by all. So for more information,

1:02.8

go to behavioral observations.com forward slash tate 2019. Hope to see you there. All right,

1:08.7

on to today's episode. Boy, am I so thrilled to announce that Greg Hanley is back on the podcast. We cover so many topics in this wide-ranging

1:11.5

conversation that I can't possibly preview all of them here. Long story short, you're going to

1:17.4

want to listen to this one from beginning to end as there are so many valuable lessons embedded

1:22.1

in this interview. Greg also mentions a ton of papers, and I think that instead of linking each one individually in the show notes, I'll link the publications page to Greg's dissemination website, practical functional assessment.com.

1:36.4

And I'll link any other things outside of that at the show notes for this episode as well.

1:41.6

So if you need to look that stuff up, just go to behavioral observations.com and search on this episode number. And then real quickly, I want

1:50.4

to thank Behavior University and Go Lotus for sponsoring today's episode. We'll hear more

1:55.8

about them later on in the interview, but for podcast-specific discounts, freebies, and so forth,

2:02.2

you can visit behavioruniversity.com forward slash observations, and go lotus.com forward slash

2:09.1

register. All right, I think that's it for announcements, so without any further ado, please enjoy

2:14.2

this fun conversation with Greg Henley.

2:27.7

Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts. Now here's your host, Matt Secoria.

2:41.3

Thank you. Here's your host, Matt Sequoria. Greg, welcome back to the program.

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