CAREER IN APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Take some time to reflect on all you have learned about the field and ways you can contribute to behavior analysis, especially within your specialization.
Review the Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template . You will need to use this template when writing your paper.
Complete the following in the Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template .
Application and Research Vision
Describe your vision for your career as a practitioner-scholar. Explain which specialization you are pursuing and why you chose that specialization.
Discuss how you would apply the findings from your literature review to your future professional practice in behavior analysis.
What aspects of your research affected your vision or goals?
Given this, what topics do you think you would be interested in exploring in the future?
Analyze how your work this quarter will help you accomplish the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional in your specialization. Remember to critically evaluate all information you use.
Discuss the career options available to behavior analysts and describe how your vision was affected by this information and from the readings in your 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for the Professional Behavior Analyst ebook and in your exploration of the Career Center and other resources.
For this step in the assignment, describe the competencies, responsibilities, ethical considerations, and other requirements needed for achieving your vision and goals as a professional in behavior analysis. These include:
Program and specialization requirements.
Credentialing, certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards.
Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
Skills, abilities, and attitudes critical to success in the field of behavior analysis, such as those related to critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based practices, ethical integrity, cultural competence, compassionate practice, and conflict resolution.
