The ABA workforce faces a persistent retention crisis. Turnover rates among registered behavior technicians and even BCBAs remain disproportionately high compared to adjacent healthcare fields, and the costs — financial, clinical, and organizational — are substantial.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Behavior Science Tech
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Have you found yourself ordering several pizza pies as a way to thank or reward staff? Have you made operational decisions or given staff promotions without the use of quantifiable metrics? In this webinar, Drs. Florence DiGennaro Reed and Kerry Ann Conde will share three ways ABA leaders can create a top ABA company to work for. They will discuss ways to assess staff preferences, how to rely on objective metrics to reinforce staff behavior, and how to use data to make operational decisions. A sample preference assessment will be shared with all attendees.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Supervision |
Dr. Kerry Ann Conde is Co-founder and Clinical Advisor at Behavior Science Technology and an Assistant Teaching Professor and Verified Course Sequence Coordinator at St. Joseph’s University in their ABA graduate programs. Kerry Ann also serves as the Social Media Coordinator for the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) and as the President of the Board of Directors for Panhandle Behavioral Services, LLC. Kerry Ann’s almost 20-year career in the field began as a Behavior Technician before it was called that. She attended Florida State University for her Master’s in ABA, earned her Ph.D. in Behavior Analysis under the advisement of Dr. Amanda Karsten at Western New England University, and completed her pre- and postdoctoral internships through Trumpet Behavioral Health in Colorado and Arizona under the direction of Dr. Linda LeBlanc. Kerry Ann has served as a guest reviewer for some of the top peer-reviewed behavior analytic journals and has co-authored several projects.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.