Behavioral Parenting How-To's

Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., wrote a fine book on single-subject research design and is a past president of the American Psychological Association. More importantly, he writes well and knows what he's talking about.

Slate (the online magazine) is running a series of articles on parenting and problem behaviors written by Kazdin for the general reader (these are not research articles, which is great). Two of the articles are "The Messy Room Dilemma" and "Tiny Tyrants". Please, check them out!

Autism research blog

As most folks reading this are probably aware, autism is an active area for behavior analysis -- for both research and clinical work. I subscribe to the Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism partially because new behavioral research is likely to pop up from time to time. The latest post concerns research into using "cognitive-behavioral therapy" for children diagnosed with autism and anxiety (note that the participants were labelled "high-functioning", suggesting that children without the verbal skills thought necessary for CBT were not involved in the study).

Click here to read about it.

Precision Teaching

For those who keep hearing the term and want more info: http://precisionteaching.pbwiki.com/

So, precision teaching folks out there -- is this a good resource or not? Go ahead and comment.