Social Behavior Mapping - Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day

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For social mapping: Use the results from the participatory ranking process to make a base map of the area under analysis. Use codes (symbols) to represent relative indicators (or ranking) of the households in the area under analysis. This can be used to monitor the households' wellbeing over time and evaluate how a project affects different social groups. Now how does/can ABA fit into all of that? This question was probably asked because BCBAs (Board Certified Behavior Analysts) don’t always play well with others (sad but true…). I get. I have been on both sides of this issue. I have been the special ed teacher on one side of the table biting my tongue as a BCBA tells me all of the things I could be doing different during an IEP meeting. I have also been the BCBA hired to consult with a classroom teacher how to improve their behavior plans. BCBAs sometimes get a bad rap. First part of this, there are some bad apples. There are in any profession. You all know teachers that you would never let your child be in their classroom. You all have meet a doctor that you didn’t love. Ever profession includes people who don’t accurately represent the goals and missions of the job. There are definitely some BCBAs running around out there that aren’t doingmy profession any favors and are ruining it for the rest of us. As a teacher, parent, or clinician, when you meet one BCBA who rubs you the wrong way it can turn you off to the whole field for a while. We start by teaching individuals to observe others across different situations and identify the expected and unexpected behavior they notice and the impact this has on others’ thoughts, emotions, reactions and responses. Over time, we gradually extend the learning to teach the full Social-Emotional Chain Reaction by having individuals observe their own behavior, recognize how it impacts others, and connect how others’ responses impact how they themselves think and feel. Social Behavior Mapping makes the complicated process of how we all affect one another’s thoughts, feelings, and actions visual and concrete! The Book Buolamwini J, Gebru T. Gender shades: intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification. In: Friedler SA, Wilson C, editors. Proceedings of the 1st conference on fairness, accountability and transparency. New York, NY, USA: PMLR; 2018. p. 77–91. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 81). http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html. Accessed 27 May 2019. Pawlowski CS, Andersen HB, Troelsen J, Schipperijn J. Children’s physical activity behavior during school recess: a pilot study using GPS, accelerometer, participant observation, and go-along interview. PLoS ONE. 2016;11(2):e0148786.

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ESRI. ArcGIS documentation. Redlands: Environmental Systems Research Institute; 2017. http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/documentation/. Accessed 27 May 2019.

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Many of you are probably familiar with Social Thinking®. The goal of Social Thinking is to “create unique treatment frameworks and strategies …. todevelop their social thinking and social skills to meet their personal social goals.” Seems like a goal we can all get behind right? Developing social skills and meeting personal social goals. Sign me up.

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During my open Q&A Facebook live in December, the topic of Social Thinking came up and what my thoughts are on ABA and Social Thinking. I engaged in some immediate escape behavior and told everyone I would write a blog post on it. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to answer the question,but I definitely needed more time than a Facebook live video allowed me. And then 2 months later, I am finally getting to it. A description of the Social Emotional Chain Reaction (SECR), the foundational concept taught in Social Situation Mapping. Worobey J, Worobey HS, Adler AL. Diet, activity and BMI in preschool-aged children: differences across settings. Ecol Food Nutr. 2005;44(6):455–66. completed Social Behavior Maps (SBMs) for practical everyday situations that happen at school, home, and in the community (these compose the majority of the book and are unchanged in this edition). These maps are examples for you to reference when helping your student or client fill out a blank map. We hope the maps will inspire you with ideas of how to develop your own customized situations relevant to the individuals with whom you work. They are also helpful in teaching how to first observe behaviors in others prior to teaching awareness of one’s own behavior and its impact on others.The Love to Play Community-University Partnership Team. Evaluation of a play-based recreation program for preschoolers: municipal recreation policy implications of Strathcona County’s Love to Play program. Edmonton; 2016. https://policywise.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/2017/01/Love-to-Play-Full-Report-13SM-Nykiforuk.pdf. Accessed 27 May 2019. The first step in behavior mapping is the creation of a map of the space being analyzed [ 42] or the provision of an existing (but not necessarily up-to-date) map as a guide [ 43]. In this case, the layout plan of the LTP room provided by the managers of the preschool programs run by Strathcona County was digitized using the ArcGIS 10.5 software [ 44]. The shapefiles created from the digitized layout map served as a base for customizing the locations of equipment in the LTP room seen on the videos monthly for use in the GIS analysis.