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What is confidence? Confidence is when a person feels sure of themself and their abilities. I feel confident while working with a client when I understand what makes them want to excel at what I ask. Sometimes when I begin working with a new client, I am unsure of myself. At times, I feel dread walking into a new session because I do not know what behaviors I will encounter; but with every client I see that what I’m doing is working and I begin looking forward to the sessions. I begin to think that I know what turns on and off their behavior. I see a change in what they are doing, and I feel proud of the progress we have made. What causes me to have confidence when working with new clients? A quote I found in Building Confidence (2017) explains the process perfectly “Positive thinking, practice, training, knowledge, and talking to other people are all useful ways to help improve or boost your confidence levels.” I sought out my supervisors for guidance with those children until I knew what to do during my sessions. Skinner (1974) wrote that instructions are designed to make it so that instructions are not necessary in the future. This means that when my BCBAs took the time to come into the sessions and instruct me on how to interact with clients it made it so that I would not need them in the future. The more I did it, the more I knew I could do it. Skinner (1978) wrote about Thorndike’s “Law of Effect” which states that if you do not like something you avoid it, but the more you enjoy something the more you want it. The more I enjoyed the sessions the more I was willing to go do those sessions. He also discussed the “probability of response” where a person has a tendency or the ability to repeat a given action. When given a consequence you can either raise the chance of the action happening again or eliminate the action if it is a negative consequence (Skinner, 1953). When my supervisors praised me for succeeding in one thing during the session, I received verbal praise which I caused me to be more willing to try more. Moore (2015) summed what is that “behavior is functionally related to its consequences.” When I did well in the session and had people supporting me I was more willing to take on the more challenging clients. I was reinforced to complete the harder tasks. Lattal (2014) stated that reinforcement as something that decreases the psychological need. I could have been provided a positive reinforcer or a negative reinforcer depending on my experience. But since I was given instruction, feedback, and verbal

praise I was given the best reinforcement for me to continue the progress of improving my skills in a session. Reference: Budin W. C. (2017). Building Confidence. The Journal of Perinatal Education , 26 (3), 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1891/1058- 1243.26.3.107 Moore, J. (2015). From a behavioral point of view: A psychological primer. Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing. Skinner, B. F. (1953). Science and human behavior. New York, NY: Freedom Press. Skinner, B. F. (1976) About Behaviorism. Vintage. New York.

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