Behavior Analysis in Higher Education: Applications to Teaching and Supervision

This cutting edge, timely book is a primary resource for students, faculty, coordinators, and supervisors in the growing field of behavior analysis. This book acts as a single resource that pulls together the background, current status, and future directions related to the relevance of a behavior analytic approach to teaching, assessment, and supervision.

The authors collaborating in this volume are experts at various stages of career development and have a known presence in the field. This combination of theory driven, and high-caliber authors have collaborated to create a one-of-a-kind book drawing from backgrounds of diversity in terms of gender, areas of expertise, and geography. The recent pandemic has resulted in a pivot to remote learning and online supervision; this text will provide an important contribution in terms of understanding how to provide high quality teaching, supervision, and assessment in behavior analysis and among other areas. As the field is moving to increasing standards for programs that correspond to accreditation body standards, this book also provides timely information about how to prepare for this process including cultural competency and ethics, which guide our teaching and practice.

Dr. Andresa A. De Souza, BCBA-D (University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2016), is an Assistant Professor in Special Education and Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Graduate Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in ABA from the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University. Dr. De Souza's research interests involve the analysis of Skinner's verbal behavior and the condition to promote generative language, the dissemination of behavior technologies to underserved communities, and the implementation of behavior strategies for effective online teaching. She is a board member of the ABAI Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group and the Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis. She serves on the editorial board of The Analysis of Verbal Behavior and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Dr. De Souza has designed and developed several hybrid and online courses for the ABA graduate program, supervised practicum students, and provided consultation for behavior analysts internationally.