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What do you get when you put two school psychology-trained BCBAs, several graduate degrees, and one shared Google Doc together? Apparently, a podcast. Welcome to Psychobabble BCBAs, a podcast about behavior analysis, psychology, and all the things we think our field needs to talk about. Hosted by Erica Ranade and Dr. Lauryn Toby, two BCBAs with roots in school psychology and more than a decade each in the field, Psychobabble BCBAs is built around a simple idea: you can deeply care about behavior analysis while examining it with a critical lens. This isn't an anti-ABA podcast. It's a pro-science, pro-client, pro-workforce podcast that refuses to confuse defending the field with defending everything the field does. Expect research and primary sources, honest disagreements, historical context, conversations with people inside and outside the field, and plenty of questions that might make you a little uncomfortable - in a good way.
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- 1 weeks ago36 min
Psychobabble BCBAs | The RBT Uprising : Episode 4
RBT working conditions aren't just a workforce issue. They're a clinical issue. In this episode in our series The RBT Uprising, Erica sits down with Alex Raymond, BCBA, of the ABA Workers Union to talk about what organizing actually looks like inside ABA and why the conversation goes far beyond wages. They discuss direct-join and pre-majority unions, RBT turnover, staffing ratios, PPE, sick leave, supervision, reimbursement structures, and what happens when organizations repeatedly train new technicians only to lose them. Alex also turns the conversation toward something behavior analysts should find very familiar: contingencies. If organizations want experienced, competent RBTs to stay, what environmental conditions are supporting or punishing that behavior? And underneath the entire conversation is the theme of this series: Our technicians' working conditions are our clients' learning conditions. Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Guest: Alex Raymond (https://www.abaworkersunion.org) Presented by: Cooperant Learning (https://www.cooperantlearning.com) Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe (http://kevindekimpe.com) Resources: Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) (https://workerorganizing.org) Thom Ratkos - The Contingencies of Capitalism (https://behaviorlive.com/courses/the-contingencies-of-capitalism) Nastasi et al., 2024 - A Qualitative Analysis of Variables Contributing to Registered Behavior Technicians' Burnout and Turnover in Florida https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41523807/ CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting https://www.cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BTNqTaC0Qjfs62iKJqJXP?si=f8b4892d80904de6 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: 7IB8H0BGGSBIDZH9
- 1 weeks ago23 min
The Psychobabble BCBAs | The RBT Uprising: Episode 5
We spent the last several episodes talking about the RBT workforce. Now we've got receipts. It's journal club time. We read it so you don't have to. Erica and Lauryn dig into Nastasi et al.'s qualitative study of RBT burnout and turnover and what happened when researchers simply sat down with RBTs and asked "What is this job actually like?" The answers weren't particularly comfortable. We're talking wildly inconsistent training and supervision, limited feedback, taxing working conditions, missed breaks, unpredictable income, unclear career pathways, burnout, and a workforce system that can rush new technicians into direct care because yesterday's technician already left. What do we actually do about it? Because RBT working conditions aren't separate from clinical quality. Continuity of care requires continuity of caregivers. Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Presented by: Cooperant Learning (https://www.cooperantlearning.com) Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe (http://kevindekimpe.com) Resources: Nastasi et al., 2024 - A Qualitative Analysis of Variables Contributing to Registered Behavior Technicians' Burnout and Turnover in Florida https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41523807/ Nastasi, Greene, Te, & Gravina, 2024 - "Everybody Needs to Take Breaks": A Qualitative Analysis of Registered Behavior Technicians' Experiences with Taking Breaks at Work (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12779845/) CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting https://www.cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BTNqTaC0Qjfs62iKJqJXP?si=f8b4892d80904de6 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas
- Sep 3, 202642 min
Psychobabble BCBAs | The RBT Uprising: Episode 3
In the third episode of The RBT Uprising, Erica and Lauryn sit down with Collin Johnson, one of the lead negotiators for the Verbal Beginnings Union 639, to hear the story directly from someone who helped organize the first RBT strike in ABA history. Colin talks about his own experience entering the field, the working conditions that pushed him toward organizing, and what it was like to take the first steps toward unionization while facing uncertainty, intimidation, and union-busting efforts. The conversation gets into the issues that brought workers to the picket line: stagnant wages, inconsistent communication, inadequate PPE and supplies, limited career advancement, supervision, unpredictable working conditions, and the enormous turnover problem facing RBTs. What happens to continuity of care when workers walk off the job? Collin explains why the workers believe improving working conditions is ultimately part of protecting continuity of care, not opposed to it. The episode also takes a hard look at the argument that providers' hands are tied by insurance and Medicaid reimbursement rates. What happens when an organization says it can't afford higher wages while simultaneously expanding into new locations? And what responsibility do large ABA providers have to the people delivering the majority of their direct services? Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Presented by: Cooperant Learning (https://www.cooperantlearning.com) Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe (http://kevindekimpe.com) CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BTNqTaC0Qjfs62iKJqJXP?si=f8b4892d80904de6 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas
- Sep 3, 202636 min
Psychobabble BCBAs | The RBT Uprising: Part 2
On July 20, 2026, RBTs in Rockville, Maryland made history by becoming the first ABA workers in the United States to go on strike. But the strike didn't come out of nowhere. After 437 days of bargaining without a first contract, workers were demanding guaranteed wage increases, more predictable hours, safer staffing conditions, and basic workplace protections. In this episode, Erica and Lauryn take a closer look at what led to the strike and why this story is much bigger than one clinic. They trace the short history of the RBT credential, examine the explosive growth of the ABA workforce alongside the rise of private equity, and ask whether the industry's business model was built around an increasingly replaceable workforce. They also dig into RBT turnover, unpredictable pay, limited career advancement, inadequate training, burnout, and the complicated relationship between fee-for-service reimbursement and working conditions. Can the ABA industry continue operating the way it does now? From the legacy of the 40-hour treatment model to insurance reimbursement, private equity, unionization, and the role of BCBAs, Erica and Lauryn explore how seemingly separate problems may actually be symptoms of the same systems-level issues. RBT working conditions aren't separate from clinical care. Our techs' working conditions are our clients' learning conditions. Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Presented by: Cooperant Learning (https://www.cooperantlearning.com) Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe (http://kevindekimpe.com) CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BTNqTaC0Qjfs62iKJqJXP?si=f8b4892d80904de6 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: SRFTDNSKTAAMKSMD
- Sep 3, 202618 min
Psychobabble BCBAs | The RBT Uprising: Part 1
What happened when psychology and behavior analysis got divorced? According to Erica and Lauryn, both sides lose something and the field of ABA is still living with the consequences. In this inaugural episode, Erica and Lauryn introduce themselves, their backgrounds in psychology and behavior analysis, and the reason they created Psychobabble BCBAs. They talk about their shared history, their complicated relationship with ABA, and their mission to bring more psychological foundations, humanity, and critical thinking into behavior-analytic practice. This podcast isn't about blindly defending ABA or tearing it down. It's about being pro-science, pro-client, and pro-workforce, while being willing to acknowledge what the field gets wrong and have the conversations that aren't always comfortable. And they're not easing into things. The first series, RBT Uprising, explores the historic 2026 RBT strike in Rockville, Maryland - the first strike in applied behavior analysis. Over the next episodes, Erica and Lauryn will examine how the RBT role was created, why burnout is so prevalent, what the research says about turnover, and what happens when the people providing support decide they've had enough. Because, as they put it: RBT working conditions are our clients' learning conditions. Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Presented by: Cooperant Learning (https://www.cooperantlearning.com) Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe (http://kevindekimpe.com) CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BTNqTaC0Qjfs62iKJqJXP?si=f8b4892d80904de6 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: Q6X1D5I2AUPPV6M0
- Aug 27, 20261 min
Episode 0: Welcome to Psychobabble BCBAs!
What do you get when you put two school psychology-trained BCBAs, several graduate degrees, and one shared Google Doc together? Apparently, a podcast. Welcome to Psychobabble BCBAs, a podcast about behavior analysis, psychology, and all the things we think our field needs to talk about. Hosted by Erica Ranade and Dr. Lauryn Toby, two BCBAs with roots in school psychology and more than a decade each in the field, Psychobabble BCBAs is built around a simple idea: you can deeply care about behavior analysis while examining it with a critical lens. This isn't an anti-ABA podcast. It's a pro-science, pro-client, pro-workforce podcast that refuses to confuse defending the field with defending everything the field does. Expect research and primary sources, honest disagreements, historical context, conversations with people inside and outside the field, and plenty of questions that might make you a little uncomfortable - in a good way. Hosts: Erica Ranada & Dr. Lauryn Toby (The Psychobabble BCBAs) Presented by: Cooperant Learning Creative Direction: Kevin DeKimpe CEUs: Sparks Behavioral Services, LLC (ACE #OP-21-0004) is an ACE-approved provider of continuing education units for behavior analysts. You can earn continuing education units (CEUs) for listening to many of our episodes by visiting cooperantlearning.com! 🎵 Spotify: Coming soon! 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychobabble-bcbas/id6805913619 📺 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUfs4kGgw-U 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychobabblebcbas 🎬 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psychobabblebcbas Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: 7SQW14H1MHPYNF2O
About The Psychobabble BCBAs
What do you get when you put two school psychology-trained BCBAs, several graduate degrees, and one shared Google Doc together? Apparently, a podcast. Welcome to Psychobabble BCBAs, a podcast about behavior analysis, psychology, and all the things we think our field needs to talk about. Hosted by Erica Ranade and Dr. Lauryn Toby, two BCBAs with roots in school psychology and more than a decade each in the field, Psychobabble BCBAs is built around a simple idea: you can deeply care about behavior analysis while examining it with a critical lens. This isn't an anti-ABA podcast. It's a pro-science, pro-client, pro-workforce podcast that refuses to confuse defending the field with defending everything the field does. Expect research and primary sources, honest disagreements, historical context, conversations with people inside and outside the field, and plenty of questions that might make you a little uncomfortable - in a good way.
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