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Below are links to major professional organizations
related to behavior analysis and effective education
and treatment.
- American Psychological Association.
This is the official web site of the American Psychological Association.
You can find a bunch of information related to psychology and its
applications.
- American
Psychological Association-Division 25. The Division, Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, advances psychology as a natural science and
emphasizes behavior as a subject matter in its own right. The site
contains links to many sites related to the study and practice of behavior
analysis.
- Association
for Science in Autism Treatment. This organization is committed to
science as the most objective, time-tested, and reliable approach to
discerning between safe, effective, autism treatments, and those that are
harmful or ineffective.
- Association
for the Study of Animal Behaviour. The ASAB was founded in 1936 to
promote the study of animal behaviour.
- Association for Behavior
Analysis-International. Visit ABA to get information on membership,
special interest groups, affiliated chapters, its annual convention (this
May in Chicago), journals, newsletter, and more.
- Association for Direct Instruction.
This association is dedicated primarily to providing support for teachers
and other educators who use or are interested in Direct Instruction.
- Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy. This is a professional, interdisciplinary
organization which is concerned with the application of behavioral and
cognitive sciences to understanding human behavior, developing interventions
to enhance the human condition, and promoting the appropriate utilization of
these interventions.
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Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan.
This is the office site for BAAM, the 3rd largest state organization in the
US, and it has some great resources.
- The B.
F. Skinner Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1987 to publish
significant literary and scientific works in the analysis of behavior and to
educate both professionals and the public about the science of behavior.
- Behavioral
Health, Sports, and Fitness Special Interest Group. This SIG of ABA is
for those interested in the application of behavioral principles and
techniques to personal fitness and health and athletic performance.
- Behaviorists For Social Responsibility.
A special interest group of the Association for Behavior Analysis, dedicated
to increasing applications of the science of behavior and cultural analysis
to social issues.
- Cambridge
Center for Behavioral Studies.
The Center's mission is to
help people find effective solutions to behavior problems. This site
contains a great deal of information relevant the use of
behavior analysis to solve a variety of problems.
- Development
and Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group. This group's mission is to
bring people from outside of traditional behavior analysis to the ABA
meetings and form collaborations and to bring behavior- developmental
analysis to the wider world of psychology, evolution, and economics.
- Division
for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Division 25, APA). This site
contains links to resources of scientific or professional interest, to
graduate training programs, to various regional organizations, and to pages
describing cities in which relevant conventions are held.
- Division
of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse (Division 28, APA). The
Division 28 site includes the Online Newsletter, recent annual reports,
presidential messages, etc., plus some highly useful directories.
- The
Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Special Interest Group. This SIG
promotes the experimental analysis of behavior with human subjects as a
means of addressing important fundamental questions about human problems and
human nature
- The
Florida Association
for Behavior Analysis. Visit FABA, the largest affiliated chapter of
ABA, for information about the organization, membership, and its annual
meeting.
- Instructional
Design Special Interest Group. This SIB of ABA promotes more effective
and efficient instruction.
- Interbehaviorists.
This site is maintained by the special interest group of the Association for
Behavior Analysis, which is devoted to the interbehaviorism of Jacob Robert
Kantor.
- The International
Behaviorology Association. This organization is dedicated to forwarding
the science of contingent behavior relations as developed and championed by
B.F. Skinner. Visit them to get details about the organization, membership,
and its annual conference.
- The New
York Association for Behavior Analysis. This site provides information
about the organization, its annual conference, and an electronic version of
its newsletter.
- The Northwest Association for
Behavior Analysis. This site contains a variety of information related
to the organization, and its annual conference.
- The
North Carolina
Association For Behavior Analysis. Information about the association and
membership.
- The Northern California
Association for Behavior Analysis. Visit this site for information about
the organization and its annual conference.
- The Ontario
Association for Behaviour Analysis. Visit ONTABA for association and
conference information, e-mail directory of its members, its newsletter, and
a reading list.
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OBM Network.
The OBM
Network exists to develop, enhance, and support the growth and vitality of
Organizational Behavior Management through research, education, practice, and
collaboration.
- The Organizational
Behavior Management Special Interest Group. This SIG of ABA provides
opportunities for training, research, information dissemination, networking,
and problem solving as they relate to systems analysis and performance
management.
- Science
& Pseudoscience Review in Mental Health. This is a special interest
group of the Associate for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy is promotes
the understanding of the scientific study of mental health problems and the
empirically supported treatments available.
- The Society
for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis. The Society "was
chartered in 1980 as a non-profit corporation devoted to the welfare and
future of behavior analysis.
- The Society for the
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. SQAB was founded in 1978 to present
symposia and publish material which bring a quantitative analysis to bear on
the understanding of behavior.
- The
Standard Celeration Society. This is an organization for all persons
using standard celeration charting in education, human services, business,
performance management, parenting or child rearing, and science. It is a
society to encourage the science of human behavior and science.
- The
Southeastern
Association for Behavior Analysis. Visit SEABA for information regarding
the organization, membership, and its annual conference.
- Teaching
Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group. This SIG's purpose is to
improve the teaching and learning of the principles and applications of
behavior analysis in any setting where those activities occur.
- The
Texas Association
for Behavior Analysis. Visit TXABA to get information about the
organization, membership, and its annual conference.
- The Tennessee
Association for Behavior Analysis. Visit this site to get a bunch of
good information about the organization and links to other behavior analysis
sites on the web.
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Verbal
Behavior Special Interest Group. This SIG of the Association for Behavior
Analysis is dedicated to the study of "language" from a behavior analytic
point of view.
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