Behavior Change Assignment Analysis

My SMART goal was starting September 1, 2017, I will get 8 hours or more of sleep every weekday until the end of the Fall 2017 school semester. The psychological skills that have been integrated into my life to accomplish my goal are goal setting, positive thought management including countering, thought stoppage, restrictive negative thoughts, and positive self-talk, and dealing with anxiety.

This means that the intervention for the client should be in the best interest of the client who is the most vulnerable and in need of behavioral analytic help. The intervention should primarily benefit the client and not necessarily the caregiver or facility. Behavior analysts are required to follow the code of ethics and use evidence-based procedures. The behavior analyst should define the relation and have a clear and concise contract detailing his or her priorities for the intervention to best benefit the client. The behavior analyst should also make sure that the procedures implemented benefit the intended client.

Thank you for your considering my application to the Applied Behavior analysis program. For all of my life I have known that I was going to help people. It could be said that it is in my DNA. I just never suspected what the capacity would be. On December 15thI graduated from Albright college, I began working at Melmark on December 16th. My first thought, on that first day was “Oh no, I can’t do this, I need to quit” That was over two years ago, and I have gone to work every day, with a smile on my face. While working at my first position, out of college, I discovered my passion. My passion, I find, is working with children and adults with autism and with people who suffer from addiction. Watching the smiles on their faces, the determination when they work to complete a goal, and just the progress makes every hardship worth it, I love it. Each day, in my position as an ABA, I run behavior support plans, IEPs, teaching plans and other protocols, and each day I truly wish that I could have contributed to these plans, protocols, and IEPs. I ponder the recommendations that I could come up with, I wonder that if I had been able to participate in these conversations to create these plans could I have brought something else to the table, a different viewpoint. Affecting the way that the plans are written and in turn ran, I feel that I could make a big difference in the lives of the children and their families also. Every two weeks each child’s team meets to discuss his or her

*Since Week 1 was unsuccessful in going to sleep around that specific goal time I changed my project by pushing my sleep goals back 30 minutes for the remaining 4 weeks.

Ever since I have begun life at college, I have found going to bed on a decent time each night a very troublesome task. I wake up feeling very tired the next morning, and I always seem in a rush to get my day started. Because of staying up so late and then not waking up on time, I am sometimes late to work or class. In addition, I find myself very tired and stressed throughout the day. This in effect makes me often irritable toward other people. I am tired of living my life in a constant flurry every morning. Thus, the behavioral change that I would like to alter is my sleeping schedule. Being tired after a night of sleep just leads to anxiety and causes even

The goal I achieved was that I applied to Texas A&M-Commerce and got accepted into their school. However, I am still waiting to be accepted into their Nursing program. I have also been finishing all my assignments before the deadline. The only thing that has caused me to not reach my entire goal for that was these journals. I began writing them daily so it was good I made the chance for that, but I realized I should have posted them each day I was writing. The progress that I made towards the goals I set were, I ran a couple of mornings and for the most part I tried to cut down on the unhealthy food choices that I previously had. What helped me succeed on that was finishing my assignments ahead of time, this

The last goal I set for myself is using my time for wisely. Every time I would come back home from school, instead of doing my homework, I would either turn on the TV or use my phone. Later on, I motivated myself to do something more productive. For example, doing and finishing my homework, because I wanted to maintain good grades. I knew that if I wanted to make my parents proud, I would have to do good in school. My parents were my motivation to always try my hardest no matter what.

1. Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it.

By using the guidelines of my short-term goal to meet my long-term goal, I was able to almost completely accomplish and

I have made a lot of progress towards my last goal. I always had my homework done ahead of time and now it has become a habit. I planned in my planner one week ahead so I could easily see all the stuff I needed to do.

While behavior change isn't easy, it can be made more manageable through the use of effective time management and scheduling. I have a bad habit in the form of procrastination, and I tended to procrastinate and postpone a lot of things in my life, including the activities I undertook for my behavior change project. By taking part in this project, I have learned that in order to accomplish my goals and fulfill my obligations, I need to set times aside for doing my different activities. By applying this attitude to both the project and other aspects in my life, I have managed to mitigate my procrastination and accomplish my objectives in a timelier

A Second strategy to reaching my goal is to complete my work on a good timing. The work my teacher gives me in that day to complete do it not taking

I did encounter an extreme issue with meeting my goal after our first home game of the season. Because we won the game, we had leave out at 3 a.m. the following morning in order to fly to Washington state to play Gonzaga. My parents were in town, so I spent time with them that evening. I then went back to my dorm and started packing. I ended up getting two hours of sleep that night. The affects I felt the next few days reinforced why I should work hard to change my sleeping habits, as I struggled to perform even the simplest of daily functions. It was absolutely terrible to say the least. This experience motivated me even more the meet my behavior change goal.

Now for my mid-range goal. My mid-range goal is having straight A’s or very high grades. It will take a lot of work but will definitely be worth it. My steps will be taking my time on each assignment and revise it over and over again before turning it. My second step

For the reasons I have explained above, and with the use of the strategies that this article suggests, I am going to hopefully achieve the goal of sleeping for at least 7 hours a day to improve my physical and mental