Burnout in the ABA workforce is not a personal failure — it is a predictable outcome of sustained exposure to emotionally demanding work in organizational systems that frequently provide insufficient reinforcement for the behaviors that effective practice requires. Supervisors occupy a particularly vulnerable position: they bear responsibility for client outcomes, staff development, and organizational demands simultaneously, while often receiving less direct reinforcement for their supervisory work than for the client-facing clinical work that originally drew them to the field.
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| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 3 | Supervision |
Dr. Ellie Kazemi has devoted her career to workforce development. She merges the science of learning, advanced digital technology, and data-based decision-making with her years of experience working with leadership to promote practical, performance-based training. She has worked on several large nationwide projects (e.g., with FEMA and NASA) focusing on measuring outcomes. She currently wears multiple hats. She is a tenure-track professor at CSUN, where she founded the M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis program and where she is also the Director of AI/VXR Initiatives for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is the founder and CEO of Transform VXR, creating a world where everyone can learn to have hard conversations through safe experiences and fun.
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