Session 10: Pat Friman on BoysTown, Parenting, and More!
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In Session 10 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, I speak with none other than Dr. Pat Friman. Pat is the Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Boys Town as well as a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine.
In today's show, Pat tells the story of how he literally wandered into a career in Behavior Analysis as well as the remarkable story of how Boys Town was started and how it serves children and families today. We then talk about his point of view on functional assessment practices, how he interviews parents, his take on what we refer to as, "kids these days," and Behavior Analysts as parents. With regard to the latter, I accidentally broach some of my own parenting struggles, so you might have some fun at my expense (your welcome).
This session of the podcast is sponsored by bSci21.org. If you're interested in a good article about parenting, check out Zainab Fazal's piece called, "My Kids Won't Stop Fighting! How ABA Can Reduce Sibling Rivalry."
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Behavioral Observations podcast with Matt Secoria, session number 10. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts. |
| 0:19.8 | Now here's your host, Matt Sequoria. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Matt Sequoria, coming back at you in session 10 of the behavioral |
| 0:31.3 | observations podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | It is my distinct honor to share with you this conversation I had with none other than Dr. Pat Freiman. |
| 0:40.3 | Pat is the vice president of behavioral health services at Boys Town, and we get into what Boys Town really is and how it started and things like that later on in our discussion. |
| 0:51.0 | And he's also a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University |
| 0:56.2 | of Nebraska School of Medicine. Pat has had a long career in behavior analysis, and he's published |
| 1:03.8 | more than 180 articles and chapters, primarily in the area of behavioral pediatrics, and he's |
| 1:10.0 | well known for interventions for |
| 1:12.7 | common parenting issues, such as bedtime problems and thumb-sucking. One of his interventions, |
| 1:20.5 | the bedtime pass won him quite a bit of notoriety, as matter of fact so he is well known for being a great |
| 1:33.7 | ambassador for behavior analysis in other words using it in areas that aren't are less well established |
| 1:42.5 | for example again using behavioral pediatrics as one area to disseminate |
| 1:48.5 | the practice. |
| 1:50.5 | So he's also a wonderful speaker. |
| 1:54.1 | I know many of you have seen him present, and I've had the opportunity to do that as well, |
| 1:58.8 | and he is just a masterable presenter. |
| 2:03.2 | And that kind of comes through in our conversation today. In our conversation, we talk about |
| 2:08.7 | how he got into behavior analysis. His, shall we say, unique point of view on functional |
| 2:15.2 | assessment practices, how he interviews parents, his take on |
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