Building Community Partnerships with Expectant Parents: The Story of our Safe-to-Sleep Research Journey is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of community routines and natural environments. In Building Community Partnerships with Expectant Parents: The Story of our Safe-to-Sleep Research Journey, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Because human behavior is a key factor in most public health concerns, the field of ABA should be able to contribute to solutions. Thus, the history of application of the principles of behavior provided sufficient evidence to convince a small group of researchers that we could collectively do something about sleep-related infant deaths, a public health concern. Every year in the United States, approximately 3500 infants die of sleep-related infant deaths which includes accidental infant deaths explained by a physical hazard in the sleep environment. The American Academy of Pediatrics has published recommendations aimed at decreasing the risk of sleep-related deaths with several of the recommendations requiring modification to the sleep environment. In order to train the public in how to arrange a safe-sleep environment, we were tasked with developing community partnerships with expectant mothers, in marginalized communities across inner cities, where cases of sleep-related infant deaths are highest. This presentation will share our research journey and will include the steps that we took as a research team in developing community partnerships with expectant mothers as participants in community settings.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Lauren Schnell-Peskin PhDAssociate Professor at Hunter CollegeShe has nearly two decades of experience in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). She has provided consultation across the lifespan in a wide range of settings, including public schools, hospitals, clinics, and mental health programs. Dr. Schnell-Peskin earned her Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis from Caldwell University and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the ABA programs at Hunter College. In addition to her academic role, Dr. Schnell-Peskin maintains a private consultation practice serving the tri-state area. Through this work, she partners with families of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and collaborates with public school teams to support students with disabilities. Her research centers around educator and caregiver training, increasing the efficiency of instruction, and broadening the mainstream applications of behavior analysis. Dr. Schnell-Peskin has published her work in books and peer-reviewed journals and presents regularly at local, national, and international conferences. She also contributes to the field as a reviewer and board member for several behavior-analytic journals.
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239 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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