#43 - Analyzing Complex Teacher-Student Interactions w/ Dr. Corey Stocco (BCBA-D) and Molly Dwyer (BCBA)

Show Notes

• About the episode

  In this episode, Zach and Caleb discuss analyzing teacher-student interactions with Corey Stocco (BCBA-D) and Molly Dwyer (BCBA).
  
  Learning Objectives:
  1) Analyze how student behavior acts as an environmental variable that shapes and reinforces adult disciplinary practices through negative reinforcement mechanisms.
  
  2) Describe how dimensions of reinforcement can be used to create differential reinforcement contingencies in the absence of extinction.
  
  3) Contrast the systemic objectives of Tier 1 school-wide consultation—which targets adult communication, procedural alignment, and macro-level interactions—with the individualized technical adaptations characteristic of Tier 3 direct student intervention structures.
  
  4) Evaluate progressive educational disciplinary policies (e.g., suspensions and isolated negative punishment procedures) to predict the emergence of counter-control, operant escape, and punishment-induced behavior topographies.
  
  5) Critique the clinical necessity of extinction procedures within school settings by evaluating how staff-modulated differential reinforcement schedules manipulate dimensions of attention (quality, immediacy, and duration).
  

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  References:
  
  Athens, E. S., & Vollmer, T. R. (2010). An investigation of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior without extinction. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43(4), 569-589.
  
  Patterson, G. R. (2002). The early development of coercive family process. In J. B. Reid, G. R. Patterson, & J. Snyder (Eds.), Antisocial behavior in children and adolescents: A developmental analysis and model for intervention (pp. 25–44). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  
  Sidman, M. (1989). Coercion and its fallout. Boston: Authors cooperative.
  
  Stocco, C. S., & Thompson, R. H. (2015). Contingency analysis of caregiver behavior: Implications for parent training and future directions. Journal of applied behavior analysis, 48(2), 417-435.
  
  Vollmer, T. R., Peters, K. P., Kronfli, F. R., Lloveras, L. A., & Ibañez, V. F. (2020). On the definition of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 53(3), 1299-1303.