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#24 - Using Motivating Operations Like a Pro w/ Dr. Sarah Frampton

In this episode Zach and Caleb discuss a variety of topics related to mand training with Dr. Sarah Frampton. Topics include methods of capturing and contriving establishing operations, incorporating learner indicating responses, and ethical implications. Two CEs are available for this episode including 1 general and 1 ethics.
  • CEs: 2 CEs: 1 General, 1 Ethics (BACB, IBAO, QABA)
  • Duration:  1 hr 44 min 
  • CE instructor: Caleb Davis

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  • About the episode

    In this episode Zach and Caleb discuss a variety of topics related to mand training with Dr. Sarah Frampton. Topics include methods of capturing and contriving establishing operations, incorporating learner indicating responses, and ethical implications. Two CEs are available for this episode including 1 general and 1 ethics.

    Learning Objectives

    1. Analyze how environmental arrangements dictate whether a practitioner is capturing an existing, naturally occurring establishing operation or contriving environmental variables to evoke a target response.

    2. Evaluate the structural implementation of naturalistic interventions, including incidental teaching paradigms and interrupted chain procedures, to map how they isolate distinct motivating operations.

    3. Categorize diverse behavioral markers (including conventional gestures and idiosyncratic motor responses) that signal the immediate strength of an establishing operation, acting as the clinical prerequisite for prompting verbal behavior.

    4. Describe ethical intervention designs that balance environmental sabotage and restriction with programmed abolishing operations (AOs) to protect client-practitioner rapport and minimize unnecessary distress.

    5. Describe legal and trauma-informed boundaries regarding the restriction of personal property and material possessions when designing behavior-analytic interventions for vulnerable populations or adult clients.

    6. Describe client-led indicator behaviors and effective responses to establish assent and dissent protocols, ensuring individuals can safely and non-coercively decline participation or terminate clinical interactions.

  • Things to check out from the episode:

    Apply to learn from Dr. Frampton and others in the University Nebraska at Omaha ABA master’s program:

    https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/psychology/academics/graduate-programs/aba-program/index.php


    Mand training role play scenario supplemental materials: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs40617-024-00985-3/MediaObjects/40617_2024_985_MOESM1_ESM.docx

    BACB Professional and Ethical Compliance Code: 

    https://www.bacb.com/ethics/ethics-code/

    References:

    Frampton, S. E., Davis, C. R., Meleshkevich, O., & Axe, J. B. (2024). A Clinical Tutorial on Methods to Capture and Contrive Establishing Operations to Teach Mands. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 1-13.

    Frampton, S. E., Axe, J. B., Davis, C. R., Meleshkevich, O., & Li, M. H. (2024). A tutorial on indicating responses and their importance in mand training. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 1-12.

    Shafer, E. (1995). A review of interventions to teach a mand repertoire. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 12, 53-66.
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