Applied Behavioral Analysis: Effective Interventions for a Variety of Disorders Amongst Children, Adults, Couples, and Families

Jamie Lynn Juarez, LMFT

Summary:

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a type of behavior analysis that uses the theory of behaviorism to modify human behaviors as part of teaching new behaviors or treatment process. Behavior analysts focus on the observable relationship of behavior to the environment. The methods of ABA can be used to change observable behaviors impacting children and adult relationships.

Objectives:

1: Understand how your clients learn and process the therapy methods we share by examining their learning behavior's visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, or olfactory dominances.

2: Benefits of using written documentation of our client's behaviors resulting in immediate, beneficial changes to their relationships by tracking baselines, scatter plots, and time recordings.

3: Teaching our clients the use of visual schedules to maintain therapy methods or skills they’re applying outside of therapy sessions.

4: How to analyze and implement behavioral changes using the ABC model while correctly applying either external or internal reinforcements when desired behaviors occur.  

Bio:

Jamie Lynn Juarez, President of Hope. Inc. in Rancho Cucamonga, CA is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Psycho-physiologist and Credentialed School Counselor. She has been in private practice treating children and adults employing models of Cognitive Behavioral, Behavioral Modifications, Psychophysiology, Educational Neuroscience, EMDR, and Family Systems therapy since 2002. She is a respected lecturer and BBS approved CEU provider educating private organizations, non-profits, and school districts striving to change and assist our world’s Autism epidemic.