Treating Fear Behavior

Behaviors related to fear are not uncommon. Most behavior analysts have seen a client at some point who responded to a context or stimulus with escape-maintained behaviors that could not be explained with operant learning histories. However, most graduate training programs and fieldwork experience do not cover the treatment of these behaviors. This course provides ABA research on fear-related behavior, with an emphasis on application and treatment planning.

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Course Pacing: This course is 4 Ethics-type CEUs and should take 3 hours and 20 minutes to complete (50 minutes/CEU, per the BACB). A course timer is provided at the end of the course. The timer is an imperfect guide and it is recommended that users informally log their time. User verification of time spent, and additional reading, are provided in the course survey presented prior to the final quiz.

Target Audience: BCBA/BCaBAs


Course Content

Lessons Status
1

Introduction

2

ABA for Fear-Related Behavior

3

Ethics and Scope of Competence

4

Decision to Intervene

5

Measurement

6

Developing a Graduated Exposure Hierarchy

7

Additional Strategies

8

Application of Methods

9

Review, Reading, Resources, & References