How Antecedents and Consequences Affect Behavior: A Practical Application

This session will be focused on teaching how to recognize antecedent and consequence events surrounding behavior that occurs in a natural setting. This session will also go in-depth on how to discern what antecedent and consequence events are the most significant in contributing to and maintaining behavior in complex behavior chains. The session is geared toward direct care staff, intervention providers, ABA practitioners, and school staff and is applicable to child and adult clients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding what antecedent and consequence events are
2. Recognizing what antecedent and consequence events are significant in contributing to/maintaining behavior in complex behavior chains
3. Understanding how behavior functions within antecedent-behavior-consequence contingencies