Sarah Holmes, MA, BCBA, PLMHP | Munroe-Meyer Institute | University of Nebraska Medical Center

Psychology
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450

Professional Summary

Sarah Holmes, MA, BCBA, PLMHP, is a predoctoral intern in the Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Psychology at UNMC. Sarah is a 5^th year PhD student in the School Psychology Program at Louisiana State University where she also earned her MA and BS in Psychology. Sarah takes a behavior analytic approach to the treatment and assessment throughout the lifespan.

Sarah’s clinical experience includes providing treatment for children/adolescents and their families with/without intellectual and developmental disabilities for language acquisition, challenging behavior reduction, and medical device tolerance. Sarah also has experience working with preschool-aged children on academic interventions and with parents and teachers to reduce disruptive behavior in the home and classroom settings. Sarah’s research goals, broadly, are to determine effective, efficient, and preferred methods to deliver treatment to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families especially to increase tolerance for medical procedures and medical devices.

Specialty Certifications

Provisionally Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (PLMHP)
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Education

MA, Louisiana State University, 2020
BS, Louisiana State University, 2018

Research Interests and Projects

Reducing barriers for individuals with developmental disabilities to access medical care
Effective and preferred interventions to increase medical procedure and device tolerance
Effective telehealth parent training models

Research Interests: children, adolescents, and young adults; bullying, dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stealthing; parent-child relationships; healthy and unhealthy relationships in childhood
Dissertation: Moral Disengagement, Empathy, and Bidirectional Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

Selected Publications

Holmes, S. C., Lozy, E. D., Ruby, A. M. Donaldson, J. M. (2022). Effects of and preference for fixed-ratio and time-based exchange-production schedules in a token system. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. 22(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000220
Donaldson, J. M., Holmes, S. C., & Lozy, E. D. (2020). A comparison of Good Behavior Game team sizes in preschool classes. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. 21(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000187
Lozy, E. D., Holmes, S. C., & Donaldson, J. M. (2019). The effects of paired kinesthetic movements on literacy skill acquisition with preschoolers. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 53(3), 1337-1353. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.677

Professional Affiliations

Association for Behavior Analysis International

Awards

ASPIRE Research Program & Award (2017)