1. “Practice of applied behavior analysis” means the design, implementation and evaluation of instructional and environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior, including, without limitation:
- (a) The empirical identification of functional relations between environment and behavior;
- (b) The use of contextual factors, motivating operations, antecedent stimuli, positive reinforcement and other procedures to help a person develop new behaviors, increase or decrease existing behaviors and engage in certain behavior under specific environmental conditions; and
- (c) The use of interventions based on scientific research and the direct and indirect observation and measurement of relations between environment and behavior.
- 2. The term does not include diagnosis, psychological testing, psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, psychoanalysis or counseling.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 4221; A 2019, 2535; 2021, 1625)