Now What?: A Behavior Analyst's First-Year Survival Guide

This isn't your typical professional development book. You won't find a list of learning directives or active student responding opportunities (ASRs). Instead, you'll find journal prompts, jargon crosswords, and scheduling sudoku. Going from a graduate student to an applied behavior analysis (ABA) practitioner can be like jumping into the Arctic Ocean; the shock to the system is overwhelming. The intention of this book is to help you get yourself out of the water and warm up a bit.

Now What? combines practical advice with a candid review of the author's early years as a behavior analyst (flubs included) in hopes that you don't feel alone in your missteps, misgivings, and general newness. Written in everyday language, the book is filled with skill-building exercises, activities for unwinding, reusable tools, and opportunities to reflect on your own experiences as they happen.

This survival guide walks you through

• How insurance funding works
• What to document and when
• Collaborating with other service professionals
• Dealing with conflict
• Improving your “bedside” communication
• Recognizing and managing burnout and feelings of imposter syndrome
• Squeezing all that and more into a schedule
• What to do when you inevitably don’t know what to do
• And more!