hi my name's Taylan Morrison and I did my research on dr. Brian Ottawa dr. Brian Ottawa received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Loyola College in 1970 dr. Ottawa continued his education to receive his master's degree in psychology from florida state university in 1972 dr. ottawa finished his schooling where he received his doctoral degree from florida state university in clinical in school psychology dr. ottawa is best known for his research focus on applied Behavioral Analysis disorders of learning and behavior and functional analysis methodologies within the field of behavioral analysis dr. Ottawa primarily focuses on individuals diagnosed with intellectual disabilities mainly focusing on autism and is best known for his development of functional analysis methodology some of his contributions to behavior analysis research and literature include that he has been practicing and researching in the field for 42 years and is still active some honors and awards include but are not limited to the Association for behavioral analysis Award for distinguished contributions to public service the American Psychological Association DF hack award for distinguished contributions to basic and applied research the award for distinguished contributions to applied research uf doctoral dissertation mentoring award and Florida State University doctoral graduate and of Distinction Award dr. Ottawa has also received over 7.5 million dollars in grants funding his research and has published over 250 articles chapters and texts that include but are not limited to environmental determinants of self-interest behavior behavioral treatment for self-injury and reinforcing a vika c of food on performance during pre and post meal sessions some more of his contributions to the field and research and literature include him holding high prestige on many committees for organizations relating to behavior analysis some of these committees include the Association for behavioral analysis where he was chair for the program committee and the president the National Institutes of Health where he was the chair of human development review committee the Society for the environmental analysis of behavior where he served as vice president and president the Society for the Advancement of behavior analysis where he was president and the florida association for behavioral analysis where he was also president why dr. ottawa's research is important in the field some of his current areas of research include functional analysis variations prader-willi syndrome and vicarious reinforcement and punishment dr. ottawa has had many impacts during his time in the field which include him developing the functional analysis methodology and mentoring a large number of successful researchers how dr. ottawa's research relates to what we are learning has to deal with his development of the functional analysis methodology his work impacted clinical practice in this particular area and basic behavior analytic knowledge by developing the functional analysis methodology which improves assessment and provision of clinical decision making dr. ottawa's research also relates to the field of applied behavioral analysis because he works with children diagnosed with intellectual intellectual disabilities especially autism which is the population that I work with in the field as well some common findings in the article is written by dr. ottawa include that behavior is maintained by automatic reinforcement and it occurred alone in functional analysis where a behavior that was maintained by social reinforcement was extinguished another common finding in his research is that severe problem behavior was being maintained by a reinforcing mild problem behavior that preceded these severe behaviors I was granted the pleasure of having an interview with dr. Ottawa some questions I asked during our interview were how he became interested in being a researcher / clinician he answered that when he was at Florida State University he was in a research intensive program and he also mentored senior students with their dissertations and then went on to propose and conduct his own research I asked what his primary areas of focus and interest were he responded with the applied Behavioral Analysis field disorders of learning and behavior and functional analysis methodologies I asked him what impacts he had in the field he said his greatest impact was the development of functional analysis methodology and monitoring the large number of successful researchers some other questions I asked dr. Ottawa included if his area has changed over time and how so he said that most of his early research was heavily applied in clinical in nature and now consists of a mix of clinical and translational work I asked him what important things I should know about his work as a beginning behavioral analyst he said that his research has two major characteristics the first being that it was fairly systematic and organized around distinct themes and the second being that the methodology is extremely vigorous the last thing I asked dr. Ottawa was what I could take from what he has learned and applied to my own career as a beginning behavioral analyst he responded that he cannot isolate the key things that he has learned but there are some very important things that he could give me tips on their first being that trending topics are less important than functional principle and methods and the second is that careful work pays off because in the end people discriminate the difference between done and excellence
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