BCBA Roundtable Journal Article Review: Supporting Social Validity and Treatment Fidelity in Schools is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of school teams and classroom routines. In BCBA Roundtable Journal Article Review: Supporting Social Validity and Treatment Fidelity in Schools, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer roles, fewer duplicated efforts, and better coordinated intervention, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via LSGurdin Consulting, LLC
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Join Free →Through journal article review, focused discussions, and information sharing, we will take a deep dive into improving both social validity and treatment fidelity in the context of effective school-based consultation. Social validity is a key component for promoting treatment fidelity and achieving desired student outcomes. However, social validity is overlooked often as a result of time constraints, lack of trained staff, and large caseloads. We will discuss the importance of establishing behavioral consultation as socially significant and meaningful for all stakeholders and review different ways to assess social validity when working with teachers, paraprofessionals, families, and administrators. Collaboration, relationship-building, and cultural responsiveness will also be discussed as integral to establishing social validity. Finally, we will review an applied study that evaluated the effects of training paraprofessionals to promote social behaviors with students with ASD that included treatment fidelity and social validity components. CLICK HERE to learn more and register for the series
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
For over 25 years, Ms. Gurdin has been working with students, families, and school-based professionals with students from preschool to age 22 with a range of special needs and complex profiles. She is founder of LSGurdin Consulting, LLC, where she provides consultation, student evaluations, parent consultation, professional development, and recruitment support to school districts across Massachusetts. She works collaboratively with parents and school professionals to facilitate integrated support across settings and maximize behavior change and skill development. Ms. Gurdin also provides parent coaching to help parents implement behavioral strategies to improve behavior, encourage independence, and build stronger family relationships. In addition, she offers cutting-edge live and on-demand continuing education events to behavior analysts. Ms. Gurdin is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Master's in ABA program and College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Ms. Gurdin is also on the board of MassABA. When she is not working, she is spending time with her husband, three children (ages 21, 20, and 15) and two dogs.
Dig into the research behind this topic — plain-English summaries written for BCBAs.
280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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