BAO is proud to announce the latest addition to our family of free online journals, The Behavioral Development Bulletin.  The Behavioral Development Bulletin is the official journal of the Behavioral Development Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA). 

 The BDB journal has been previously published in hard copy format for several years and is now available to readers in electronic format. All past issues will soon be archived and available online.

The BDB journal is especially relevant to behavior analysts who study the developmental processes responsible for behavior changes and their progressive organization. The BDB journal hopes to provide answers by looking at the biological and environmental factors that affect behavioral development, while maintaining primarily interest in the role of environmental contingencies in behavior change.

We hope you will enjoy the BDB journal!

Joe Cautilli/BAO Journals

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Behavior Analyst Online is pleased to present the "Behavior Analysis Review 2007," a two-volume anthology of brief reviews and discussion articles covering a wide range of topics to which behavior analysis is relevant. 

The goal of the volumes, which are published by BAO Journals, is to promote the dissemination of scholarly information about behavior analysis across specialty areas and disciplinary boundaries. These articles are suitable for several audiences, including established behavior analysts who wish to know more about unfamiliar topics; individuals who are just starting their development of expertise in behavior analysis; and colleagues from outside of behavior analysis who may be interested in what behavior analysis can contribute to topics about which they care. 

To get your free set of the Behavior Analysis Review 2007 journals, visit the website

      Behavior Analysis Online has now entered into a new phase in its evolution and growth. We have moved from a small but visible website to becoming a key special interest group within the premiere behavior analytic organization - Association for Behavior Analysis International. 

     We hope that our focus on disseminating behavior analysis to places, which would have difficulty accessing such information, helps ABA to meet its mission and vision.   The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAInternational) states that it is a nonprofit professional membership organization. Its stated mission is to develop, enhance, and support the growth and vitality of behavior analysis. It has recently developed a focus on international dissemination.  ABAI achieves its mission through support of research, education, and practice. The Behavior Analyst Online organization finds no better place to call home. 

 

The Journal of Behavior Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness, and Medicine

   The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention (JBA-OVTP) will also debut in 2008.  According to publisher Joe Cautilli, the journal's mission statement is as follows:   “The mission of this new journal will be to highlight the role of behavior analysis in adult and juvenile crime prevention, assessment of offenders including risk assessment, and treatment programs from a behavioral orientation including but not limited to the use of behavioral counseling, collaborative goal setting, contingency management, functional assessment, functionally based interventions, respondent conditioning and counter conditioning procedures, functional analytic psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. The journal will also place a major focus articles on that present behavior analytic and social learning models of the development of criminal behavior, the behavioral treatment of victims, victimology from a behavior analytic perspective, behavioral interventions for violent crime, functional assessment of offender motivation, and other types of criminal activity, including behavioral approaches to the reduction of terrorism and insurgency reduction. We see all of these topics as suitable for publication in this journal. In addition, the journal will publish articles on behavior analysis in the treatment of the offender that are policy oriented. Articles on forensic behavior analysis, testifying, due process, and behavioral profiling of criminal behavior will be considered. Finally, organizational behavior management and positive behavioral support articles dealing with system change issues in schools and criminal institutions will also be considered."
 

     The vision of the Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention is as follows:  By 2001, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 2.7% of adults in the U.S. had served time in prison. This is almost a full percentage over the 1.8% that were estimated to have served back in 1991. This dramatic rise in those serving in prisons speaks to the need to strong offender treatment and prevention programs. We envision a world in which evidenced based practices are in place to reduce recidivism and serve as a functional alternative to reducing crime.