The Case for Humor in Behavioral Interventions: Session 111 with Steve Ward

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Almost from the outset of the podcast, people have been asking me to get Steve Ward on the show. If you're not familiar with Steve, he is the co-founder of Whole Child Consulting, and co-author of The Inventory of Good Learner Repertoires (amongst many other books).

In this episode, Steve and I talk about his paper that discusses the role of humor in behavioral interventions. We also talk about his concept of "task as reinforcer," and then digress into helping kids who present with oppositional repertoires.

We discussed a ton of resources, and I have done my best to capture them below. If you like the kind of approach that Steve offers, he is conducting a webinar that's hosted by The Applied Behavior Analysis Center on June 16th, 2020. ABAC is offering a 20% discount on this event as well as others to podcast listeners. If you're interested in checking this out, go to abacnj.com and use the code ABACBO20 at check out. With a few exceptions, this discount is available for most of the ABAC webinars, so hit the show notes for more details.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to session 111 of the behavioral observations podcast. Boy, do I have a fun show for you today.
0:12.9	Almost from the outset of this show, people have been asking me to get Steve Ward on the podcast.
0:18.8	If you're not familiar with Steve, he is the co-founder of
0:21.6	Whole Child Consulting and co-author of The Inventory of Good Learner Repertuars, amongst
0:27.8	many other books. In this episode, Steve and I talk about a recent paper of his called
0:32.3	What's Wrong with Being Funny, a Clinician's Perspective on Humor on humor and behavioral intervention. We also talk
0:39.2	about his concept of task as reinforcer, which was written up in behavior analysis and practice a few
0:44.8	years ago. And then we digress into all sorts of other topics, including working with kids who
0:50.7	present with oppositional repertoires. This is one of those shows that could have
0:55.0	just gone on for hours and hours, and we're definitely penciling in some opportunities to
1:00.7	come back not only on the podcast, but to visit in one of our membership hangouts.
1:06.3	Steve and I discussed a ton of resources, and I've done my best to capture them in today's show
1:11.9	notes. And if you like the kind of approach that Steve offers, he's conducting a webinar
1:16.8	that's hosted by the Applied Behavior Analysis Center on June 16th, 2020. ABAC is offering a 20%
1:23.7	discount on this event as well. And so if you're interested in checking this out,
1:28.1	go to abacnj.com and use the code ABACBO20 at checkout. I know that's eight characters,
1:36.9	but so I think perhaps your best bet is to just go to the show notes to this episode. I'll
1:41.1	have all the links waiting for you there. But with few exceptions, this discount is available for most of their webinars. So again, hit the show notes this episode. I'll have all the links waiting for you there. But with a few exceptions, this discount is available for most of their webinars. So again, hit the show notes for
1:48.2	more details. Okay, this show is brought to you with the generous support of the following.
1:55.2	HRI recruiting. Barb Voss has been placing BCBAs in permanent positions throughout the United States for just about a decade.
2:02.6	And she's been in the business more generally for something like 30 years.
2:07.0	Like Batman, she prefers to work alone, which means that when you work with HRI, you work directly with Barb and get highly personalized services.
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