Ep. 33- One Less Lonely Practitioner- Staff Training and Buy-In

Training and getting buy-in from direct care staff

Another One Less Lonely Practitioner episode since you all seem to like it so much! In this episode, we talk to Kaitlyn, a BCBA based in New Jersey in an interesting role. Her role involves minimal actual clinical work and is solely focused on the training of direct care staff as they go to implement procedures in behavior change programs. With her background in severe behavior married to this new OBM style position, she definitely has a lot of actionable advice for the everyday Analyst. We discuss the differences between severe behavior and skill acquisition, the struggles of training staff, and different actionable procedures to follow to ensure staff fidelity and buy-in. At the end, we even sprinkle in a little bit of imposter syndrome and discuss what it was like to go from the clinical work to a training role. I had a great time discussing these topics with Kaitlyn, and I hope you will enjoy and learn a little bit as you listen!