Josh Pritchard PhD
Curriculum vitae

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Education, appointments, service, and every publication I can verify. Last updated August 2026.

Degrees

Education

  • PhD, Behavior AnalysisUniversity of Nevada, Reno
  • MS, Applied Behavior AnalysisFlorida Institute of Technology
  • BA, PsychologyFlorida Institute of Technology
Positions

Appointments

  • FounderFactari — 2015 — and Factari CoOp
  • Founder and operatorAdventure Child Therapy (ACT), Colorado and Oklahoma — 2021 to present
  • Executive Director, CanberraAspire Early Intervention, Australia — 2022 to 2024
  • Assistant Professor, School of Behavior AnalysisFlorida Institute of Technology
  • Chair, Hybrid MA in Professional Behavior AnalysisFlorida Institute of Technology
  • Program Director, hybrid degree programSouthern Illinois University
  • FounderHedgehog Publishers
  • Launched and opened centersFit Learning — Orlando, Washington DC, Denver, Austin, Kansas City, Bay Area
  • FounderLodestone Academy, Orlando — 2013
  • FounderJKP Analysts — 2006
Service

Professional service

  • PresidentFlorida Association for Behavior Analysis (FABA), 2020–21
  • PresidentAssociation for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT)
  • Co-editor, newsletterAssociation for Science in Autism Treatment, with David Celiberti
  • PresidentTennessee Association for Behavior Analysis (TABA)
  • Student Representative, Executive CouncilAssociation for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI)
  • Member, Supervision Task ForceBehavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB)
  • Representative to the Coalition of Behavioral OrganizationsAssociation for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
  • Associate EditorTwo behavior-analytic journals
  • ConsultantState facilities under U.S. Department of Justice review
Books

Edited volumes

  • Wine, B., & Pritchard, J. K. (Eds.). (2018). Organizational behavior management: The essentials. Orlando, FL: Hedgehog Publishers. ISBN 978-0-9995467-1-0.

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Articles

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Pascale, V., Pritchard, J. K., Iovino, F. P. C., Bassani, S., & Wine, B. The effects of a DRO and self-monitoring program on prisoners in an Italian prison. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Advance online publication.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-025-01045-0
  • Rey, C. N., Pritchard, J. K., Wine, B., & Martinez-Diaz, J. SΔp: The missing discriminative stimulus for nonpunishment. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 23(2), 143–149.

    doi:10.1037/bar0000267
  • Dubuque, E. M., Franklin, B., Pritchard, J. K., & Webb, T. Creating an automated health attestation system during the COVID-19 global pandemic using Google's G Suite. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14(4), 1058–1066.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-020-00545-5
  • Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., McEachin, J., Bondy, A., Cihon, J. H., Detrich, R., … Pritchard, J., … Streff, T. The importance of professional discourse for the continual advancement of practice standards: The RBT® as a case in point. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(5), 1789–1801.

    doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04631-z
  • Wine, B., & Pritchard, J. K. Issues with private practice. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 40(3–4), 170–185.

    doi:10.1080/01608061.2020.1810844
  • Pandey, P., Prathosh, A. P., Kohli, M., & Pritchard, J. Guided weak supervision for action recognition with scarce data to assess skills of children with autism. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(1), 463–470.

    doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5383
  • Li, A., Gravina, N., Pritchard, J. K., & Poling, A. The gender pay gap for behavior analysis faculty. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(4), 743–746.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-019-00347-4
  • Griffin, M., Gravina, N. E., Matey, N., Pritchard, J., & Wine, B. Using scorecards and a lottery to improve the performance of behavior technicians in two autism treatment clinics. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 39(3–4), 280–292.

    doi:10.1080/01608061.2019.1632241
  • Chancey, C., Weihl, C., Root, W. B., Rehfeldt, R. A., McCauley, D., Takeguchi, K., & Pritchard, J. The impact of mindfulness skills on interactions between direct care staff and adults with developmental disabilities. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 160–169.

    doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.07.004
  • Li, A., Curiel, H., Pritchard, J., & Poling, A. Participation of women in behavior analysis research: Some recent and relevant data. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 11(2), 160–164.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-018-0211-6
  • Brewer, A., Li, A., Leon, Y., Pritchard, J., Turner, L., & Richman, D. Toward a better basic understanding of operant-respondent interactions: Translational research on phobias. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 18(4), 328–332.

    doi:10.1037/bar0000112
  • Tyner, S., Brewer, A., Helman, M., Leon, Y., Pritchard, J., & Schlund, M. Nice doggie! Contact desensitization plus reinforcement decreases dog phobias for children with autism. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9(1), 54–57.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-016-0113-4
  • Pritchard, J. K., & Wine, B. Icing on the cake: The role of research in practitioner training. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 8(2), 140–141.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-015-0074-z
  • Sheyab, M., Pritchard, J., & Malady, M. An extension of the effects of praising positive qualifying autoclitics on the frequency of reading. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30(2), 141–147.

    doi:10.1007/s40616-014-0017-8
  • Pritchard, J., & Zurn, J. B. Use of RFID tags to capture dynamic behavior of individual and groups of small fish. The FASEB Journal, 26(1 suppl.), 1042.14.

    doi:10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.1042.14
  • Washio, Y., Hayes, L. J., Hunter, K. W., & Pritchard, J. K. Backward conditioning of tumor necrosis factor-α in a single trial: Changing intervals between exposures to lipopolysaccharide and saccharin taste. Physiology & Behavior, 102(2), 239–244.

    doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.010
  • Pritchard, J. Virtual rewards for driving green. The Behavior Analyst, 33(2), 185–187.

    doi:10.1007/BF03392216
  • Hayes, L. J., Dubuque, E. M., Fryling, M. J., & Pritchard, J. K. A behavioral systems analysis of behavior analysis as a scientific system. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 29(3–4), 315–332.

    doi:10.1080/01608060903092169
  • Pritchard, J. K. A decade later: Creating single-subject design graphs with Microsoft Excel 2007. The Behavior Analyst Today, 9, 153–161.

    doi:10.1037/h0100655
  • Hassert, D. L., Kelly, A. N., Pritchard, J. K., & Cautilli, J. D. The licensing of behavior analysts: Protecting the profession and the public. Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 5(2), 8–19.

    doi:10.1037/h0100415
  • Wilder, D. A., Chen, L., Atwell, J., Pritchard, J., & Weinstein, P. Brief functional analysis and treatment of tantrums associated with transitions in preschool children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39(1), 103–107.

    doi:10.1901/jaba.2006.66-04
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