BehaviorSelf: BA without the BS

Welcome back! This week we are diving into an opinion-based conversation: red and green flags in the workplace. This idea initially came from our colleague, Candace Fay. We call out potential flags that may arise across a company including within the organization itself, the system, the work floor, supervision, training, communication, and ethical maintenance. Do you have flags to add? Let us know!

Welcome back! This week we learn how to care for ourselves and set ourselves up for success. Tune in for self-care tips, ideas for burnout mitigation, and job-crafting suggestions to improve your quality of life at work. Do you have suggestions? Let us know!

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Welcome back! We hope you're enjoying our mini burnout series! This week we are discussing how to close our burnout cycles. We will be referencing the Nagoski sisters' book once again! We will share suggested behaviors to close stress cycles, the evolutionary background of these behaviors, and our own cycle-closing routines.

Welcome back! This week we get into a prevalent topic in our field, burnout. We will be predominantly focusing on identifying burnout. What does it look like? How does it begin? How does it flourish? How can I bounce back?

To define burnout, we use the definition from the Maslach Burnout Inventory. After discussing the backing research, we will be getting personal by sharing our own experiences with you. Following our stories, and taking us into next week, we suggest some resources to identify your level of burnout and ways to begin mitigating it. If interested in reviewing your burnout status as a behavior analyst, check out Defy Community's Burnout Assessment Tool. If you are curious about the "Burnout Bible" we keep referring to, it is "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski." Start reading along as we will be discussing it more next week!

Welcome back! Did you miss us? This week, we came back with broad strokes. We will be diving into behavior analysis across the alphabet and discussing some of our experiences, some resources we have found, and topics that were interesting to us! The article referenced in the podcast today is ABA from A to Z: Behavior Science Applied to 350 Domains of Socially Significant Behavior. Be sure to check out our Instagram @behaviorselfpod for some of the resources discussed in our episode!

Articles referenced today:

Heward, W. L., Critchfield, T. S., Reed, D.R., Detrich, R., & Kimball, J.W. (2022). ABA from A to Z: Behavior science applied to 350 domains of socially significant behavior. Perspectives on Behavior Science, 45(2), 327-359. https://doi-org.portal.lib.fit.edu/10.1007/s40614-022-00336-z

Welcome back! This week, join us as we dive into a timely topic: vacation! We will discuss how to set up boundaries and set yourself up for success. Rest is deserved, not earned, so take care of yourself! Following the release of this episode, we at BehaviorSelf will be taking a two-week vacation. The breaks we have set up throughout the year will provide us with some time to rest, implement feedback, and record content to guarantee that we will have episodes prepared for the other weeks of the year. Thank you for being with us thus far, and we look forward to having you back in the fall for Season 2! Do you have a topic you would like us to cover? Let us know @behaviorselfpod on Instagram or via email at [email protected]

Welcome back! Join us as we dive into boundary usage in our personal and professional lives. We will be sharing stories of setting boundaries directly and indirectly with our colleagues and friends. Boundaries are not just for ~emotional~ use, they can aid in advocating for yourself, but also for creating schedules, reducing response effort, and maintaining your financial worth. Then we enter the more complex part, maintaining the boundaries we set, which can be hard for us "healing people pleasers." There is trial and effort, but that is how we form habits! It is important to maintain flexibility with ourselves when starting new behaviors. Do you have specific verbiage for boundary setting that has historically worked for you? Let us know @behaviorselfpod on Instagram!

Welcome back! This week's topic is beneficial to any employee - technology boundaries. We will discuss our hacks for maintaining our schedules, using technology as tools for success, and suggestions for maintaining boundaries. Do you have helpful hacks? Let us know @behaviorselfpod on Instagram!

Welcome back! This week we are diving into an ethics debate within our field: is OBM ABA? Join us as we discuss some viewpoints from both sides of the discussion from prominent figures in the OBM sector. In addition, join us for our two cents as up-and-comers in the field. You may even catch a hot take or two!

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Welcome back! This week, we are diving into ~imposter syndrome~ by regaling you with our tales, our tips, and the reality of the systems we are all a part of. Join us as we dive into it all! The systems and who they were designed for, who is affected by these systems, what large changes are needed to said system, and what personal behavior changes we can do in the meantime.

The articles referenced in the show today were

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