Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training

Dr. Peter Sturmey is a retired professor of psychology who remains active in research and writing. He is affiliated with Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Brock University, Ontario; and Endicott University, Massachusetts. Prof. Sturmey brings more than three decades of research experience in Applied Behavior Analysis, including teaching and supervising master and doctoral-level ABA student research.Dr. Lindsay Maffei-Almodovar, PhD, BCBA, LBA has worked in the field of education for 17 years. She is a New York State certified classroom teacher and has taught in general and special education classrooms and in home-based environments. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has worked in a variety of roles, often involving both direct care service and staff support, development, and training. Her research focuses on caregiver training, specifically for direct care staff. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has published staff training research in Behavior Analysis in Practice as well as a meta-analysis on staff training in the Review Journal on Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She also has published chapters in the Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology the Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar is currently the ABA Training & Development Coordinator of the QSAC Preschool, Whitestone Day School and Bronx Day School.

• 1. Behavioral Skills Training: An Introduction2. Needs Assessment3. Basic BST procedures4. Programming Generalization and Maintenance5. Applications6. Evidence Base for Behavioral Skills Training7. Component and Parametric Analyses8. How Does BST Work? Functional analysis of BST9. Pyramidal training and systems issues10. Future directions