An assessment of the qualities and behaviors of exemplary practitioners: Perspectives from international and award-winning behavior analysts

How Can Qualitative Methods Be Applied to Behavior Analytic Research: A Discussion and Suggestions for Implementation

“…One plausible explanation is that analysts have a limited familiarity with, or fluency applying, qualitative methods in their work. Qualitative approaches are not routinely taught to trainee behavior analysts or rehearsed readily to allow for adoption into practice (Zayac et al, 2023 ). Taking the position that qualitative approaches offer behavior analysts an additional research tool, which can be functionally applied to questions where there is good fit, it follows that an introductory discussion of qualitative approaches, and how they might be sensitively incorporated into our scholarship, is warranted or possibly overdue.…”