Polish Association of Behavioral Therapy – 2025 Chapter Update

By Paweł Bakalarz

Polish Association of Behavioral Therapy is a country-wide, non-profit organization for behavior analysis professionals and people with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families that dates back to 2002.

Together with Polish Society of Behavioral Psychology, we co-operate the Polish License of Behavior Therapist (https://pltb.pl/). We set standards of practice, provide training and certify behavior specialists that work mainly in the field of treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders.

In 2024, we mostly working on redesigning the training and certification system. These works continue and will finalize with a uniform programme for behavior therapy school. We are also in contact with IBAO with regards to mutually honoring the titles between both systems. Our members participated in a bi-annual Polish Behavioral Symposium organized by Polish Society for Behavioral Psychology. We gave talks on the history of ABA in Poland and behavioral self-management strategies.

Our members continue to provide their services to the communities in need; they work in schools, both public and private, and have private practice. As an association, we provide continuous services: psychological and educational diagnoses, functional assessments, behavioral programming and therapy. We provide out-patient clinic services in Krakow. We also run special schools that provide strictly ABA-based education and treatment: elementary and work-preparation schools for children and youth with special needs in Krakow and elementary school for children with special needs in Raciborz.