Want to learn from seasoned professionals in the field of Counseling and Applied Behavior Analysis? Join us each month as we tackle a new topic.

What: Lunch and Learn with S.E.E.K. Arizona

Who: Registered Behavior Technicians, behavior coaches, habilitation providers, and those serving individuals with behavioral health needs

When: 3rd Thursday of every month, 11am–1pm

Where: S.E.E.K. Arizona Training Annex

4700 E. Thomas Rd. #103 Phoenix

www.SEEKArizona.org

Themes

August 16, 2018: Intro to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) 11:00am-1:00pm

The luncheon will focus on general terminology, interventions, and topics in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). ABA is a service that S.E.E.K. Arizona offers to help families more effectively support their child with behavioral challenges.

In this luncheon, the following topics will be discussed: Definition of ABA, terminology used by behavior analysts, the process of providing behavior analytic services to your family, ABA and autism, and common misconceptions related to ABA.

September 20, 2018: Intro to Expressive Art Therapy (EAT) 11:00am-1:00pm

The lunch and learn will focus on how expressive arts can be used as a tool for self expression and healing. Expressive Art Therapy (EAT) can be used with any population or age. Expressive arts combine many types of arts like: visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing, and other creative processes. In this luncheon you will do a “get to know you” art activity, learn about EAT, and learn some art activities that you can do with your clients/children/self to help with expressing feelings and emotional regulation.

October 18, 2018: Let's Play! 11:00am-1:00pm

The luncheon will focus on how to identify and develop social/play skills. Social/Play skills are very influential on the development of many cognitive and motor skills. In this luncheon, the following topics will be discussed: the levels of socialization play, characteristics of the socialization play, how to prepare for playdates with peers, strategies on implementing playdate, resources for social play opportunities, and how to create playbooks or scripts for social play.

November 15, 2018: Incorporating the “Zones of Regulation” with Children 11:00am-1:00pm

The luncheon will focus on exploring different ways to incorporate aspects of the Zones of Regulation when working with children. The Zones of Regulation assists children with achieving the preferred state of alertness for the given situation, which includes regulating one’s body needs as well as one’s emotions.

The following topics will be discussed in this luncheon: ‘Zones’ terminology and content; calming tools; problem solving tools; and self-regulation maintenance/growth.

December 20, 2018: Learn how to provide fluency based instruction and data based decisions 11:00am-1:00pm

Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charts are fundamental tools utilized to teach students functional skills to increase fluency and retain over time. However, in order for Precision Teaching to play a significant role in teaching skills to fluency, one must be competent at making appropriate data based decisions during Precision Teaching sessions. The purpose of Precision Teaching is to improve upon each individuals’ data based decision making skills. You will receive an introductory training in Precision Teaching, Standard Celeration Charting and making data based decisions. We will provide examples of baseline data that will be collected on the number of correct and incorrect data based decisions made over the length-of-time the observer spent in daily timings. Precision Teaching comes from a very strong quantitative scientific basis and was pioneered by Ogden Lindsley in the 1960s based largely on Skinner's operant conditioning.