Awab Abdel-Jalil

Awab Abdel-Jalil, PhD, BCBA-D, is the Vice President of Applied Research at Upstate Caring Partners, and an adjunct instructor in Endicott College’s ABA master’s program. He began studying behavior analysis as an undergraduate at the University of North Texas and went on to complete his master’s thesis under the guidance of Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz. He then earned his PhD at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. T.V. Joe Layng. Awab is a coauthor of Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice and has published on topics including assent, exposure therapies for medical procedures, and the nonlinear constructional approach. He has presented more than 70 symposia, workshops, and papers at major behavioral science and psychology conferences, with expertise spanning nonlinear contingency analysis, the constructional approach, assent, emotions, problem solving, and exposure therapy.