Discussion Group Subscriptions

Discussion groups and listservs are a wonderful way for professionals to stay in contact and share opinions and information on current events and specialized topics. Below is a list of groups that currently host discussion groups and instructions on how you can join in on their conversations. Descriptions shown are taken from organizational websites or have been provided by the organizational leadership.

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BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC DISCUSSION GROUPS

American Psychological Association: Behavior Analysis (Division 25) Mailing List

Division 25 sponsors a listserver (div25@lists.apa.org) for use by members of the division and friends. Information about research opportunities, applications of behavior analysis, queries to colleagues, and APA matters are circulated on the list. All subscribers may post to this list. We hope that this list will become a forum whereby EABers can learn how the experimental analysis of behavior makes contact with other sciences and of different ways that behavior analysis has been applied.  Students are welcome to join and participate in list discussions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Public Mailing List

This mailing list serves as a forum for non-professionals to discuss ACT. It is not meant to deal with requests for specific professional advice, but it will deal broadly with common personal problems. There are no requirements to join other than interest in the subject.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Professionals Mailing List

This is the primary ACT mailing list, serving as a forum for clinicians and scientists to discuss current conceptual, scientific, and practice developments in ACT and RFT. It is restricted to professionals or graduate students in relevant fields. It is not meant to deal with requests for advice about personal problems. Paid Association for Contextual Behavior Science (ACBS) membership (at any level) is now required to join the ACT Listserv for professionals. Your membership will be verified when you apply to the listserv. Non-professionals are invited to join the "ACT for the Public" mailing list below.

Association for Behavior Analysis International Clinical Special Interest Group Mailing List

The ABA Clinical Special Interest Group is composed of those members of the Association for Behavior Analysis working in the application of behavior analysis in clinical domains. This list serves as a forum for members of the ABA Clinical SIG to discuss relevant conceptual, scientific, and practical issues.
Association for Contextual Behavior Science (ACBS) Student SIG Mailing List

This is the mailing list for the student member Special Interest Group of ACBS.

Behavioral Development Bulletin

The mission of the Behavior Development Bulletin is to provide behavior analysts with peer-reviewed scientific information of interest to the behavior community, including research in cognitive development, child emotional development, developmental theory, and socialization. Since its inception, the Behavior Development Bulletin has published articles of an inter- and multidisciplinary nature including areas of socio-biology and behavioral methodology. To subscribe to the Behavioral Development Bulletin email behavioraldevelopment-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To post a message email behavioraldevelopment@yahoogroups.com.

Behavioral Gerontology Special Interest Group Mailing List

This is a forum for students, professionals, and all other individuals interested in the field of behavioral gerontology. Behavioral Gerontology is the application of behavior analysis to aging and age-related issues. 

Behavioral Medicine Special Interest Group

Discussion Group Description: From Benard Brucker's operant biofeedback to improve motor functioning in children with cerbral palsy and adults with spinal injuries [Brucker BS and Bulaeva NV (1996). Biofeedback effect on electromyography responses in patients with spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 77 (2): 133-7. ] to Richard Stuart's Weight Watchers program to Fordyce's operant treatment of chronic pain, behavior analysts and behavioral psychologists have greatly contributed to the area of behavioral medicine. This tradition continues today from the treatment of self injury and feeding disorders in children with autism to the treatment of head injury in military veternans to the treatment of incontency through biofeedback and bedwetting by the bell and pad behavior analysis shines. These are just a few areas that behavior analysis has created evidenced based treatments. Join this special interest group and learn about a proud history and a wonderful future. This list is sponsored by the Association for Behavior Analysis International's( http://www.abainternational.org/Special_Interests/si.asp )Behavioral Medicine Special Interest Group. We hope that this list will begin to foster a greater understanding of the impact of behavior analysis on behavioral medicine. Behavior analysis has had considerable impact on the development of the field of behavioral medicine. This impact has most importantly affected the study of self injury, feeding disorders, sleep problems, obesity, pain, and smoking reduction. With behavioral research continuing in many areas including vocal distress (Warnes, & Allen, 2005) and epilepsy (Wyler, Robbins, Dodrill, 1979). Most insurance companies cover the costs of operant behavioral intervention such as biofeedback for pain. In addition, many behavior analysts currently work in the hospital setting with clinically ill populations. All are welcome to become members of this list and engage in interactive discussion about behavioral medicine.

Dissemination of Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group

The mission of the DBA SIG is to disseminate the science of human behavior to the public at large through the promulgation of easy to understand explanations of what exactly this science is, and help society realize the potential of this science as well as dispel myths which detract from its positive image.

Interteaching Listserv

To subscribe to the Interteaching listserv, send an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UHD.EDU 
The subject line can be left blank but the body of the email should say SUBSCRIBE INTERTEACHING. For an introduction to interteaching click here.

Organizational Behavior Management Network Special Interest Group

SIG Description: Founded in 1982, the Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) Network exists to develop, enhance, and support the growth and vitality of Organizational Behavior Management through research, education, practice, and collaboration. The OBM Network accomplishes this mission through networking, journal publications, newsletters, online resources, and a bi-annual conference.

Any visitor to the OBM Network website can view the comments made in the SIG's Discussion Forums. However, to only members of the OBM Network are allowed to post comments to the discussion group.

Precision Teaching / Standard Celeration Charting Listserv

The Standard Celeration listserve (SClistserv) came about to serve all people interested in precision teaching (PT) and standard celeration charting. The lively discussions on the SClistserv cover many issues. For instance, subscribers will read practical discussions that concern helping students achieve their instructional goals. List members will also find information pertaining to general issues such as the present and future direction of precision teaching.

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) Mailing List

This is the primary RFT mailing list, serving as a forum for scientists and practitioners to discuss current conceptual, scientific, and practice developments in RFT and ACT. It is restricted to professionals or graduate students in relevant fields. Paid Association for Contextual Behavior Science (ACBS) membership (at any level) is now required to join the RFT Listserv. Your membership will be verified when you apply to the listserv.
Sex Therapy and Educational Programming Special Interest Group Mailing List
 
The Sex Therapy and Educational Programming (STEP) SIG of ABA International exists to help promote empirically verifiable sex therapy and education techniques and materials, and to promote behavior analytic research of human sexuality.
Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior Mailing List
 
The Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) was founded in 1978 by Michael Lamport Commons and John Anthony Nevin to present symposia and publish material which bring a quantitative analysis to bear on the understanding of behavior. This International Society holds its annual meeting in conjunction with the Association for Behavior Analysis ( ABA). Talks at SQAB focus on the development and use of mathematical formulations to: characterize one or more dimensions of an obtained data set, derive predictions to be compared with data, and generate novel data analyses. 
Speech Language Professionals - Applied Behavior Analysis Mailing List
 
The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for SLP professionals with an interest in ABA and ABA professionals with an interest SLP to interact with each other about research and applied issues of mutual interest. The group is affiliated with SPABA, a special interest group (SIG) for behavioral SLPs and ABA professionals within the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA). We welcome clinically certified professionals as well as students in the fields of SLP and ABA. If you wish to join this list, please send an e-mail to MareileKoenig@comcast.net including the following information: 
  • Your full name
  • If you are a student, provide the name of your university & department
  • If you are a professional, indicate the organization (ASHA, ABA, or both) in which you are a member
  • If you hold a certification, please specify (e.g., CCC, BCBA, etc.)
Teachers Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting Listserv
The Teachers' PT/SCC list serve provides a forum for teachers* and other interested people to share and discuss issues relevant to the application of Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting.
Teaching Behavior Analysis Mailing List
 
TBA-L is the email discussion forum for the Teaching Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group (TBA). Members include some who formally teach the principles and applications of the science of behavior, practitioners who apply the principles in various real life settings, and others who are interested in a scientific understanding of why we are the way we are and why we do the things we do. Discussion covers a wide range of topics including principles, concepts, and theories; their application toward improving the well-being of living creatures; professional issues; and more because all of these topics are important for those who learn about and teach about behavior.
 
TBA’s web site contains interesting and useful information that is available to all visitors. Those who choose to become TBA members receive additional access to members-only content. 
Verbal Behavior Mailing List
 
The focus of this list is teaching verbal behavior (VB) within a program of applied behavior analysis (ABA). B.F. Skinner's 1957 analysis of verbal behavior looked at the functions of language over its forms, and described numerous verbal operants, or units of language. ABA/VB in this context addresses difficulties in the development of communication seen in most individuals with autism and other related disabilities, in part by emphasizing functional language and tying it to motivational variables. Members of this list post and answer questions pertaining to ABA and specifically to teaching VB. Moderator Christina Burk, a behavior analyst, checks all responses before approval to ensure a high quality of information. Welcome!