Involving oneself in an unpredictable predicament can test one’s choices and actions, revealing their acumen under taxing circumstances. My brain stormed through every possible scenario as I reached towards the television. With my senses alert and my body tense, I anticipated for the usual outburst or tantrum as I announced, “One minute is up. I’m turning off the TV.” One month of stringent Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) intervention had finally resulted in the improvement of the maladaptive responses from my six-year-old client with Autism. After two years of working with Autism Interventions & Resources (AIR), I have become a proficient adaptive strategist. With a background in ABA, I recognized the ubiquitous advantages of applied Psychology to prevalent concerns in the workplace. Cognizant that adults spend 80% of their waking life at work engages my keen interest in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; specifically, leadership. My life experiences, learned skills, and current assets combined with training in I/O Psychology will give me the necessary expertise to serve the working adult community.
Things were not always luminous; I dealt with depression for a period of my life and, as a result, my school and work performances suffered. Instead of letting it consume me, I fought back and became aware of the deleterious effects of mental illness. The experiences with depression sparked my interest in psychology, ultimately, led to my position as consult interventionist at AIR. My responsibilities not only involved working with children with Autism and coaching parents, but also included training new employees to the company. I understood the importance of good training as it correlated to the upward progress of our clie...
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...r work regarding individual stress and appraisal’s relationship to workplace’s productivity. Additionally, an intimate campus and surrounding budding businesses allow opportunities to translate theory into practices.
Excluding my GPA and GRE scores, the experience with autistic children, my knowledge of ABA, my passion for the working-class, and ability to quickly adapt set me apart from others. Attaining my Degree from your institution will bolster my career as an I/O Psychologist and allow me to service the constant changing enterprises of US economy. Born into a family of educators, my mother a kindergarten teacher, and my father an electrical engineer professor in Vietnam, I always believed I would be a teacher too. With the same dream in mind, I hope to graduate from West Chester University one day and teach our economy the benefits of applied psychology.
Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) originated with Skinner and his studies on operant conditioning. The method used to apply operant conditioning has since been applied to help expand necessary life skills in children with autism. ABA uses a scientific approach to understand of all kinds of actions and skills in both physical and social events that might affect a person’s behavior (Barnhill, 2008). The main focus of ABA is to understand behavior and how and why learning will occur. According the Skinner’s work, ABA looks at the functional approach to behavior....
I would hope to allow myself to distinguish myself from other students and make myself more prevalent and outstanding in my specific classes. As I would like to purse a degree in Psychology with a minor in Criminology, I would like to become an ‘All around Psychologist’ dabbling in numerous sections of the ‘Psychology life.’ It is my belief that this HBCU would give me all mental and educational tools that will aid me in being the best in my chosen field. It is not that I do not like the educational system at my current university, it is just that i feel as though I can excel beyond measures at my new university coming this Spring.
Her mother recognized that environmental factors like “getting angry once a tantrum started…[and] noisy places” (Grandin, 2006, p. 34) were things to avoid and something to keep Grandin’s teachers aware of. Grandin’s teachers needed to know as to what might provoke a distracting and upsetting environment. Decreasing stimuli in the classroom atmosphere allows more conducive learning for both Grandin and her peers. Laura Barnes similarly discussed in her applied behavioral analysis lecture the idea of being aware of “people, places and things” (Barnes, September 18, 2015) as possible environment instigators. Though people with autism often have more difficulty with processing external stimuli, maintaining a proper environment is helpful to everyone. In a hospital, a nurse may come across a once pleasant patient who has become more irritable and having trouble with recovery after treatment. An inspection of the patient’s environment may show that things like beeping machines, led to a restless night resulting in the mood change. Within the healthcare field, possible environmental irritants should be reduced to help patient recovery. Distractions have the ability to affect everyone, obtaining the skills to spot and avoid them are
It is with great pride and enthusiasm that I write to you today to express my intentions towards my future endeavors once graduating from your humble establishment with a degree in applied behavioral analysis. My intentions are to graduate from Saint Joseph 's University with a degree in applied behavioral analysis, then to proceed onto the next step in my career as a behavior specialist councilor, where I can help families through creating concrete goals and plans and models to measure these goals, as well as to ensure that parents are supplied with the resources required and an efficient team to help them.
middle of paper ... ... However, there is a large portion of mental health ill people that are able to find stability and maintain stability in their illness. Many of these people overcome their illness to some extent and manage to play an important role in society. Work Cited: Claire Henderson, Sara Evans-Lacko, Clare Flach, Graham, Thornicrofi.
As Applied Behavior Analyst, we seek to modify a behavior social significant behavior. Our effectiveness can only be measured how much the behavior we set out to modify is changed to a degree in which it makes a difference in the social situations the behavior occurs in. Baer said that this was not a scientific measurement, but a practical one: "its power in altering behavior enough to be socially important, is the essential criterion” (Cooper 17-18). The effectiveness of the research of an ABA effect both the clinical and educational applications of ABA because these cases are the bases of how ABA grows and changes. They are the way we learn and master our field. Even if modifications are later made to older experiments, without them we would not know where to
A: Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is a practical approach derived from the social learning theory. It is the application of the principles of behavioral analysis to everyday situations, to make a patient more easily likely to adapt to social interactions over time. It has seen effective use in people with learning disorders and developmental disabilities. In ABA therapy, socially significant behavior is taught and reinforced using the principles of reward and punishment. This is why, in many ways more than one, ABA is perfect for dealing with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
As I was sitting in my Industrial/Organizational Psychology course, I had an epiphany which allowed me to explore my options of working in this field, and I knew that my dream was to become an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. As my senior year begins to quickly come to an end, I am feeling a plethora of emotions, and the following quote by Dr. William Henry Cosby Jr. describes the current temperament that I am experiencing; “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” I will achieve my career goals and am willing to learn from my failures to reach my highest level of success.
Your Future in a Mental Health career? New York: Richard Rosen Press, Inc., 1976. Print: Halter, Margaret J. Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier/Saunders, c2014 Rhodes, Lisa. Telephone.
After a long period of careful thinking I have decided to pursue a career in Clinical Psychology, as it interests me and I am a people person. Within education, a person learns so much and develops as a person. In regards to me, my understanding, I have to know my strengths and weaknesses. My three key strengths that I have developed over the years and continue to develop are communication, researching and organisation skills. I have developed communication skills by volunteering in wards and nurseries and working as a support worker in numerous places in the past three years, places such as Barnardo’s, Alder Hey Hospital, Royal Hospital and care agencies: Just One and Select Support.
My motivation is based on two things. Firstly, I really want to help other people as much as I can. The understanding of human behaviour is the key for me to help others improve their well-being. This made me start seeking for information and experiences beyond the university’s classes and books. There was 30 hours of supervised Clinical Child Psychology Practice, where I was shadowing a professional psychologist at an Educational Consultancy. I really liked my time there and I felt like I could not have chosen any other career. In 2014 I joined a foundation where we were developing autistic children’s social skills and perceptions with movements and exercises. In these months I saw different children with different disabilities. It was
Learning is a continuous process and the day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and lower levels of satisfaction. My ardent desire to acquire knowledge has motivated me to pursue higher studies at graduate level, and to take up a career in research in industry. I have taken this decision after carefully considering my academic background, profound interest in research and strong aptitude for problem solving.
It is important to reiterate that when dealing with job stress, the organization must be sure to make the careful distinction between the commonly perceived definition of stress and positive stress within the organization. Through Seley’s research, he postured that positive stress can “be helpful when it motivates people to accomplish more” (The American Institute of Stress). This positive stress serves as a motivator that drives people to reach goals.
The advancement of humanity requires constant effort to know the unknown. Chemists do the interesting job of studying the composition of matter and its properties. Investigating what constitutes the things around us and extracting the useful knowledge from it has always proved beneficial to mankind. I became fascinated by studying chemistry during my last two years of high school. Pursuing my interest, in 2006, I started my bachelors program at Taibah University. Madinah, Saudi Arabia, then in 2012, I started my masters program at Sacred Heart University with expected graduation in Dec 2014. In fact, the education at Taibah University and Sacred Heart University deepened my understanding of chemistry.
As rightly said by Hippocrates “The life so short, the craft so long to learn”. I believe that a good mix of talent and dependability are a crucial and potent mix for success. Honing my skills with a Masters’ degree after completing my Bachelors’ Degree In Physiotherapy, I believe would help me develop an array of cross functional skills. Gaining technical expertise in the subject of physiotherapy and then whetting my skills during my internship, taught me to be precise and scrupulous towards every task at hand. Having successfully pursued this field for nearly 5 years, I believe that, if given a chance, these skills endow me with the knowledge to gain an opportunity to pursue higher studies at your prestigious university.