Course Outline

Unit 1: Course Overview, Expectations, and Information About Credentials

• Levels of BACB Certification
• Requirements for RBT Certification
• Components of the Course

Unit 2: Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice

• Historical Context for Ethical Guidelines
• Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for Behavior Analysts

Unit 3: Behavior and Environment

• Behavior
• The Three-term Contingency

Unit 4: Observation and Measurement of Behavior

• Continuous and Discontinuous Measures
• Types of Data Collection
• Graphing Behavioral Data

Unit 5: Reinforcement

• Reinforcers and Positive and Negative Reinforcement
• Basic Schedules of Reinforcement

Unit 6: Preference Assessment

• Preference
• Stimulus preference assessments

Unit 7: Fundamentals of Skill Acquisition

• Behavioral Repertoires
• Skill Acquisition Plans

Unit 8: Prompts and Prompt Fading

• Types of Prompts
• Prompt Hierarchies
• Prompt Fading

Unit 9: Discrete-Trial Teaching Procedures

• Discrete Trial Teaching
• Components of Discrete Trial Teaching: Instruction, Prompt, Response, and Reinforcer

Unit 10: Task Analysis and Chaining

• Behavior Chains and Task Analysis
• Forward Chaining, Backward Chaining, and Total Task Presentation

Unit 11: Discrimination Training

• Stimulus Control, Discriminative Stimulus, and Stimulus Delta
• Discrimination Training
• Stimulus Fading

Unit 12: Generalization and Maintenance

• Response Generalization and Stimulus Generalization
• Promoting Generalization

Unit 13: Naturalistic Teaching Procedures

• Naturalistic Teaching Approaches
• Activity-based Instruction Methods
• Incidental Teaching Methods

Unit 14: Functions and Functional Assessment

• Why a Behavior May Be Undesirable
• Common Social Functions of Behavior
• Automatic Reinforcement
• ABC Data Collection

Unit 15: Behavior Reduction

• Healthy Contingencies
• Behavior Support Plans
• Reducing Undesired Behavior
• Differential Reinforcement
• Extinction

Unit 16: Crisis Management

• Restrictive Procedures
• Behavioral Crises

Unit 17: Next Steps to Certification and Beyond

• Applying for the RBT Exam
• Supervision Requirements for RBTs