Discussion Forum 3

Behavioral skills training (BST) is an evidenced-based approach to teaching new skills that is effective in a range of settings and with a range of learners. The ability to implement BST is an important supervisory skill to develop so that you can train supervisees on the many skills needed to perform assessments and carry out behavior intervention plans with clients.

Please review at least one peer-reviewed article that explains and provides an example of BST.  Here are two suggestions:

Courtemanche, A. B., Turner, L. B., Molteni, J. D., & Groskreutz, N. C. (2020). Scaling up behavioral skills training: Effectiveness of large-scale and multiskill trainings. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14(1), 36–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-020-00480-5

Nigro-Bruzzi, D., & Sturmey, P. (2010). The effects of behavioral skills training on mand training by staff and unprompted vocal mands by children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43(4), 757–761. https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2010.43-757

After reading one of the articles (or an article of your choice), explain how you could use behavioral skills training to teach your supervisee to collect ABC recording data (as part of a functional behavior assessment). Be sure to describe the four main steps of BST and how you would implement each one in the context of training your supervisee to conduct an ABC analysis.

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