Nathan Azrin Awarded Lifetime Service Award

Professor Nathan Azrin was recently presented with the Victor G. Laties Award for Lifetime Service to the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB). The award was created to recognize those individuals who made significant scientific contributions to the disciplines. Azrin is among the most internationally recognized faculty at NSU. He is known as an investigative scholar whose research and treatment/training programs are now in widespread usage. He helped establish the field of applied behavior analysis. Examples are the token economy or point reward program ; use of time-out; and effective self-care programs for persons with disabilities including toilet training, nocturnal enuresis, dressing, proper mealtime skills, self-stimulation, aggression, and self-injury. He also developed programs for persons including for alcoholism, drug use, medication adherence, tics, stuttering, Tourette’s Disorder, etc.