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In this episode, we talked about ethics in behaviour analysis and applying our code of ethics to fields outside of autism and learning disabilities. Emily and I have chosen to apply our certification in behaviour analysis (as awarded by the BACB) to health and fitness. The certification isn’t specific to any one application, it’s not an ‘autism certification’ so this is entirely allowed as long as it’s within your scope of practice. Scope of practice may mean you have addition qualifications or experience in that area. In our cases, Emily is a qualified PT with experience working as a PT. I’m PN1 certified and have experience working with adults on their health and nutrition goals. When you certify through the BACB, you sign a contract stating that you will comply with their code of ethics. Why are we doing this podcast? Well… increasing numbers of behaviour analysts are branching out into the field of health and fitness and the rigour with which the code of ethics is being adhered to is getting sloppy, in my opinion. Now… If someone is a behaviour analyst from Monday to Wednesday and a health coach from Thursday to Saturday and they don’t advertise their health services as being behaviour analytic in nature or display their BACB credentials, then it’s fair game. But that’s not what’s happening. Being a BCBA AND a health/fitness coach is what, in theory, makes us better than any other health and fitness professionals. So we need to actually be better. BACB have an ethics department with a lawyer on staff. They’re not playing. For non-behaviour analysts, but maybe you’re interested in our profession or in working with a behaviour analyst - I’d recommend you go and look at the BACB’s code of ethics. IMO, it’s a thing of beauty. It’s not perfect, but it does a good job. It’s 19 pages of in-depth ethical considerations. Big problems that I see: 1. Client confidentiality - 2.03 Protecting Confidential Information AND 2.04 Disclosing Confidential Information - AND 5.02 Confidentiality in Public Statements (see 2.03, 2.04, 3.10) 2. Advertising and sharing client testimonials - 5.07 Soliciting Testimonials from Current Clients for Advertising (see 1.11, 1.13, 2.11, 3.01, 3.10) and 5.08 Using Testimonials from Former Clients for Advertising (see 2.03, 2.04, 2.11, 3.01, 3.10) - 3. 5.10 Social Media Channels and Websites (see 1.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.11, 3.01, 3.10) Informed Consent - What even is it? 4. Multiple relationships - 1.11 Multiple Relationships 5. Scope of competence - 1.05 Practicing within Scope of Competence 6. Non-behaviour analytic services - 5.06 Advertising Nonbehavioral Services (see 1.01, 1.02, 2.01) 7. Reporting unethical behaviour is wildly aversive 8. Why has this annoyed me so much? 9. Expect better Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

Episode name: How to 'get back on track' In this episode, we talked about how to get back on track Ideally, there’s no track to be on or off. Realistically, you can get ‘off track’. 1. Get curious not critical. Why did you fall off track? What was the antecedent? What can you do to prevent that in future? 2. Re-evaluate what your track is. Is it value driven? What are the risks associated with staying off track? Potential benefits? What will it take to get back on track? Downsides? Potential benefits? 3. Consider your personality type. Do you work well with new year new me style changes? Or small easy wins? 4. MOs. Can we have a reset? Or would restriction send you into a spiral of over-restrict/over-indulge? 5. Set daily habits. Start small. Habit stack. 6. Get parameters in place. You might accept you’re staying ‘off the rigid track’ but still within the ball park. For my own nutrition, this looked like minimum 2 portions of protein a day and 6 portions of fruit and veg. With food: 1. Go food shopping 2. Fill your house with foods you want to eat 3. If necessary, clear out the foods you don’t want to eat and/or note how you want to work on them and make a plan of how to do so. 4. Have a plan of how these foods will be used 5. Accept that the first few days/week will suck 6. Prep in bulk or batches 7. Take food out and about with you if you know you’re out all day 8. Have a budget and stick to it 9. Plan for ‘treats’ and being off plan Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

In this episode, we talked about the big life changes we've experienced in the last few months and changes to the podcast. Emily: * Divorce * Moving house * Living for herself * From grey fuzzball to multicoloured sparkly fuzzball…?! Jo: * Insomnia to the extreme * Pregnant  * Moving house, out of London Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

In this episode, we had the pleasure of talking to Kaitlin Wilder (@Wildsidebehavior) about her transition from being a school-based BCBA to applying ACT to life coaching. We discussed: * Her being a circus performer, aerialist, fire eater * Going from being a school-based BCBA to life coach. * From a need for control, serving others to realising it deprived her. * To be doing “good”, you have to be doing work that’s really HARD, right?! * From hitting rock bottom to changing her purpose * What is a life coach? * What is ACT? * Defining your values * What makes a good life coach? * Using ACT in her work https://wildsidebehavior.com/ Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

In this episode, we were thrilled to invite Emily Varon back to speak to use about how sleep impacts our nutrition! Disclaimer: we do touch on weight from a health perspective We talked about: * How sleep impacts our food choices. * What happens when we sleep: gut regenerates, brains detox, etc. * When we sleep less than 7 hours per night, leptin and ghrelin up regulate. So you will feel more hungry! * After 2 nights of only 4-5 hours of sleep, participants ate on average 300-400 more calories on average, mostly of sugar and carbohydrates. * How short sleep affects your mental health * Sleep apnoea * Napping * Caffeine Find more from Emily at: https://readysetsleep.com/ CEUS: https://readysetsleep.thinkific.com/ Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Emily Varon about sleep! Emily Varon is a BCBA with a dedicated focus on sleep-related behaviors. She takes the complicated issue of pervasive sleep problems and helps behavior analysts develop  appropriate and ethical behavior plans for improving the quality of sleep for consumers and their caregivers. Her focus on sustainability of sleep habits versus “good” or “bad” habits offers families and clinicians a broader, long-view perspective of sleep, resulting in more sustainable results over time. We discussed: - Why is sleep a behaviour analytic issue? - Is sleep a behaviour? - Common sleep issues - Top sleep tips - and much more! You can find more from Emily Varon at https://readysetsleep.com/ and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/readysetsleep_  and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-varon-417aa521/  Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

Why think about dating and flirting? Much sociological research into dating looks at the form of dating and people’s intentions, but as behaviour analysts we can look at the functions of the behaviour, verbal and non-verbal behaviour and how our learning histories affect our choices. What is it? "Flirtation” refers to behaviour that entails conversation, body language, or physical contact that potentially establishes or maintains a romantic or sexual relationship between two people. It’s all a form of verbal behaviour and we can study it as such - think topography. Skinner (1957) defined verbal behavior as behavior maintained by a verbal community in which the interaction of speakers and listeners established the practices of the verbal community itself. Flirting is really ambiguous. It’s framed by a number of rules but the rules are dynamic as well as implicit instead of explicit. The rules are also very different depending on age, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion and learning history. Functions: What’s the function? - Escape… societal disapproval of 30+ unmarried women (hello spinster vs bachelor). - Escape… loneliness or lack of socially mediated reinforcement? - Access to automatic reinforcement - the physical side relationships. - Tangible… gold digging? - Social… dating purely for social engagement? - Mate selection - Social… knowing someone else finds you attractive Researchers using scripts of flirtatious acts have found that women are more likely to report flirtation as serving the primary function of “having fun” or maintaining a relationship while men report flirtation as “sex-directed” (Henningsen, 2004) Autoclitics: HOW something is said is often more important that WHAT is said. Autoclitics - “You are pretty” vs “I think you’re pretty” The autoclitic is defined as verbal behavior that modifies other verbal behavior or the reaction of the listener. Think Joey from friends and “How you doin’?” Wade found that the autoclitic function of “you and me” is more successful in prolonging the duration of a conversation and potentially securing a first date in comparison to the function of “we.” For example, “you and I should grab coffee sometime” was more successful than “we should grab coffee sometime.” Topographies: Grammar et al. (2000)-  female interest in a male was positively correlated with “courtship” behaviors e.g. coy smiles. For males, high production of speech was correlated with interest. Environment The same behaviours that could be considered flirting (making eye contact, leaning towards someone, touching them) in the right circumstances but not in others. What about MOs and conditional discriminations? Reference: Wade J. A. (2018). (I Think) You Are Pretty: a Behavior Analytic Conceptualization of Flirtation. Perspectives on behavior science, 41(2), 615–636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-018-0136-y Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

Body triggers a stress response Positive Overwhelm: overwhelmed by the outpouring generosity or support Stress/overwhelm can be manifested to benefit us but many times, hinders us Flight-fight-freeze response gets triggered/ panic mode/ shut down -- escape/avoidance Operationally define Overwhelm- looks similar but different for everyone  Deep breaths -- coping strategies -- expel carbon dioxide which leads to relaxation Boundaries: to prevent in the future (self-advocacy skills/manding/communication) Break down big tasks into small managable tasks- task analysis Create sustainable routines- chaining Look at the antecedents that triggered the overwhelm Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

Sarah Burby is BCBA who specializes in Intuitive Eating from a behavior analytic perspective 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating 1. Reject the diet mentality 2. Honor your hunger 3. Make peace with food 4. Challenge the food police 5. The satiation factor 6. Feel your fullness 7. Cope with Emotions with Kindness 8. Respect your body 9. Movement - Feel the difference 10. Honor your health - Gentle Nutrition Individualized approaches Shaping, Task Analysis, Desensitization Approaches https://www.smallchangeshwncoaching.com/ [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/smallchangeshwncoaching/ https://www.instagram.com/smallchanges_coaching/?hl=en Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services. 

Brian is an autistic BCBA - the “Bearded Behaviorist” We discussed ASD as the medical model and how the assumption is that the behaviours observed are not rational. So what is the behaviour analytic perspective on ASD? We talked about: Radical behaviourism - all behaviour is rational within context Medical model vs social model Self management Behaviour analysts should be scientist teachers Neurotypes serves ecological niche You can find Brian at: https://beardedbehaviorist.com/ https://www.facebook.com/BeardedBehaviorist https://www.instagram.com/beardedbehaviorist/?hl=en https://twitter.com/behaviorbearded Connect with Us! If you have any questions, comments, concerns or topics that you would like us to cover, please reach out to us! Facebook Behave Yourself Podcast (private group) Instagram: instagram.com/emily.a.macrae instagram.com/thebehaviourlady instagram.com/behaveyourselfpod Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: While we’re both behaviour analysts and qualified in our respective fields, this podcast is for education and information sharing only and should not be taken as personal, medical or behavioral advice or services.