Session 12: Mary Lynch Barbera on The Verbal Behavior Approach, e-Courses, Book Writing, and Professional Development
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
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🗓️ 15 September 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Session 12 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast features an in-depth conversation with Mary Lynch Barbera, BCBA-D. In this episode, we talk about a wide range of topics including, but not limited to,
- Her pre-ABA career as a nurse (which actually involved quite a bit of OBM work!).
- How she learned about behavior analysis, and how her advocacy for her son led her to becoming a BCBA.
- The motivation behind writing her best-selling book, The Verbal Behavior Approach, and creating her e-course, Autism ABA Help: Online Training for Professionals and Gung-Ho Parents.
- What her writing practices are, and how best to avoid, “the curse of knowledge,” when communicating behavioral principles with lay people.
- Her thoughts on some recent workshops from the recent National Autism Conference at Penn State University.
Mary shares tons of resources in this episode, so please check out www.behavioralobservations.com for the Session 12 show notes. She also has generously provided listeners with a $50 coupon for her course. Enter BEHAVIORPOD at checkout to redeem it. To learn more about Mary, be sure to visit her website at http://www.marybarbera.com.
This podcast is sponsored by bSci21.org. bSci21.org is your go-to ABA news site. The companion article for this episode is called, “I” is just a bit of Verbal Behavior, by Dr. Scott Herbst.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mary Barbera. Thanks for joining me today. How are you doing? |
| 0:06.4 | Great. Thanks for having me here. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, man, this is a treat because I can't tell you how many times I have lent out the verbal |
| 0:14.0 | behavior approach to never have gotten them back. So I think personally, I've purchased at least, |
| 0:19.0 | I don't know, four to six copies of them. |
| 0:21.4 | And so to be talking to you here is, again, a real treat. |
| 0:26.3 | So thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:28.3 | Oh, it's been great to have met you online. |
| 0:32.2 | And I look forward to hopefully meeting you in person sometime. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, for sure, for sure. |
| 0:36.9 | And so I'm familiar with your story. |
| 0:39.5 | I know many of our listeners are, but I want to kind of, for those who aren't, |
| 0:43.3 | I want to kind of take it back to the beginning because I know we were talking about |
| 0:47.9 | other podcast episodes I've done as you've probably figured out by now. |
| 0:51.5 | My typical first question is asking people how they got into |
| 0:54.6 | behavior analysis your story is obviously unique so would you mind taking a few minutes and |
| 1:00.2 | sharing that with the audience not at all not at all so I graduated with a bachelor's in science |
| 1:07.7 | and nursing degree in the mid 80s and then I worked as a staff nurse |
| 1:14.3 | in a neurology floor. And then I received my master's in science in nursing administration |
| 1:22.7 | from the University of Penn. And I went on to become a head nurse, nurse manager of a floor, and I went on to |
| 1:34.2 | publish and do a little research in the nursing field. And my areas of interest were always, |
| 1:40.9 | because I was in nursing administration, things like retention, time management, |
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