Supporting Behavior Analysts, Educators, Administrators and Attorneys
in creating practical solutions for complex problems
Training/consultation solutions for your organization
Solutions for Behavior Analysts
We provide a variety of consultative services for behavior analysts working with children and adults at all levels of functioning. We also offer BEYOND SUPERVISION, a post-certification mentoring for new or even experienced BCBAs who wish to gain additional expertise in assessing severe problem behavior and writing better behavior plans.
Solutions for Professionals in Human Services/Education
Providing behavior analysis consultation and training for staff at all levels working with a variety of populations. Whether you're in need of an individual case consultation for a student or client with dangerous problem behavior, a customized in-service training for all your staff, or an engaging speaker for your next conference, we have a solution for your problem.
Solutions for Attorneys
With more than 15 years of restraint-related expert witnessing experience, including jury trials and equal experience working with plaintiff/defendant teams, we can ensure that your legal team will have an undeniable yet unbiased edge. Whether it's a restraint-related injury/fatality at a residential facility, or due process litigation in a public school, we can focus your legal team on the critical information that very often makes or breaks cases.
Merrill Winston, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Dr. Winston has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for over 35 years. He has served as a consultant in schools, group homes, private homes, and large residential facilities. Dr. Winston has given presentations for audiences both nationally and internationally and is a popular speaker at conferences.
“One problem is that medications don't really affect behaviors directly, instead they interact with the entire human and their history.”
From Dr. Winston’s presentation: Actual Results May Vary
Podcasts Featuring Dr. Winston
-----ABA Speech Podcast with BCBA AND SLP Rose Griffin-----
The Importance of Comprehension Skills
- This podcast is for anyone working with individuals with reading comprehension problems, especially those with incomplete repertoires. One main point of the podcast is that it is unlikely lhat a student will comprehend even a simple story if they cannot comprehend and recount their day in detail. Our ability to seriate past events leads to deeper understanding, prediction, judgment, logical reasoning and host of higher thinking and reasoning and all of this is linked ot a perception of time.….Listen to find out more…
-----Behavioral Observations with Matt Cicoria-----
The Roles of Bias Formation and Disproportionality in the Context of Racism: Session 197
- The full title of the talk is, "Whitesplaining Racism: Part Deux! Logic, Disproportionality, Avatars, Hate Crimes, and Uncomfortable Feelings." Dr. Bruce Tinor was in the audience at the Black Applied Behavior Analysis Conference in Detroit and he urged me to make it a podcast so I asked him to join me with Matt and I think everyone will love it.
-----The Atypical Behavior Analyst with Kelly Tait-----
*Actual Results May Vary: The Behavioral Contribution to Psychotropic Medication usage.
- Dr. Winston and Kelly Tait talk about how behavior analysis can contribute to better medication evaluation.
Behavior Analysis and Marketing
Dr. Winston and Leah Fennema Hall, M.S., BCBA, discuss how Behavior Analysts can do a better job of marketing themselves and some impediments faced.
-----Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria-----
Why your behavior plan sucks!
Dr. Winston reveals how many behavior plans miss the mark when it comes a variety of factors that can adversely affect clinical outcomes. Dr. Winston chats with Matt Cicoria and several of his guests about some of the hallmarks of a good behavior plan and some of the red flags for bad ones.
A Behavioral Analysis of Mass Shootings
Dr. Winston breaks down mass shootings in a way that outlines the necessary and sufficient conditions to create a mass shooter and yes, guns play a role, yet guns alone cannot produce this outcome and a vague "mental illness" whipping boy sheds no light either.
Straight Talk on Restraint
Dr. Winston answers questions submitted by Matt’s many listeners and dispels the myths about restraints and discusses both their responsible and irresponsible/dangerous use.
More Podcasts Featuring Dr. Winston
Winston Behavioral Solutions is an approved ACE provider
Provider Number: OP-21-0246
