Behavioral Health Lab
Welcome!
Our Mission
We aim to improve the quality of lives of individuals by systematically identifying, designing, and delivering evidence-based, consumer friendly, and meaningful assessment and interventions
while enhancing the mainstream relevance of behavior analysis.
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Behavioral Health Lab is directed by Dr. Chunying Jin and our goal is to train effective scientist-practitioners to improve the quality of lives of individuals.
Research and Service Areas
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Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Sleep Problems in Young Children and Adults
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Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Challenging Behavior Problem Behavior
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Functional Analysis and Function-based Interventions
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Preschool Life Skills (Instruction Following, Functional Communication, Delay Tolerance, Friendship Skills)
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Evidence-based Pedagogy
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Promoting Student Success in Higher Education
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Alzheimer Caregiver Training
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Trauma Informed Applications of Behavior Analysis
Recent Activities of Behavioral Health Lab
Four Behavioral Health Lab Members, Ife Dawodu, Ana Sampedro, Elise Gibbs, and Ramon Gutierrez, win the prestigious Cal-ABA 2026 Research Awards!
Come see their presentations at Cal-ABA in March, 2026!
2025 Hooding Ceremony and
Award Season!
Congratulations to all
Behavioral Health Lab members
who were honored!
Behavioral Health Lab Members Present at Cal-ABA 2025!
Behavioral Health Lab members present on our latest work at CalABA 2024!
Behavioral Health Lab members Timothy Huck and Bailey Fitzpatrick wins 2023 CalABA Student Research Awards for their research projects on prevention of problem behavior and Alzheimer caregiver training!
Behavioral Health Lab member presents research on prevention screening of challenging behavior in a symposium, chaired by Dr. Joyce Tu, at ABAI-Denvor in May, 2023
Dr. Jin presents at the ABACLIVE Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Series in April, 2023.
Behavioral Health Lab member presents research on prevention assessment with researchers from Children's Hospital of Orange County at CalABA in March, 2023
Dr. Jin presents for BHCOE in February, 2023
Behavioral Health Lab Member presents at CSUNPosium in April, 2023
2021-2023 Lab Members
Behavioral Health Lab Member presents at ABAI-Autism in February, 2023
Behavioral Health Lab undergraduate students represent CSUN at Cambridge Center Conference in April, 2022
