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In Session 187, Steve Ward joins me to discuss how to help individuals - in particular, individuals with severely limited communicated repertoires - who demonstrate challenging repertoires that are colloquially referred to as Anxiety.\\xa0

Given that tortured sentence, you can probably already imagine that in this episode, we discuss how Steve conceptualizes what exactly Anxiety is, especially in populations who cannot verbally report on their private verbal behavior. More importantly, we discuss how he developed what he calls the "calm counts" procedure, and review a case study of this intervention that he recently published.\\xa0

Here are the resources we discussed in this podcast:

• Using Differential Reinforcement in the Presence of Stressors to Teach Self-Calming\\xa0(Ward, 2022).
• Calm Counts\\xa0data sheet.
• Video\\xa0of the technique being implemented.
• Whole Child Consulting\\xa0(Steve\'s website that has tons of resources).\\xa0
• Whole Child Consulting\\xa0FB Page.
• Good Learner Repertoires\\xa0FB Group.
• Task As Reinforcer\\xa0paper.
• Pink Floyd\\xa0reference.
• Top Shelf Sports Bar and Grille.
• Steve\'s first appearance on BOP,\\xa0Session 111.
• Friman, Hayes, and Wilson (1998). Why Behavior Analysts Should Study Emotion: The example of anxiety.\\xa0

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