Communities of Practice: learning together and shining brighter 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 learning together and shining brighter, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
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Join Free →The world is in great transition. The strengths and weaknesses of our societal structures are becoming more and more apparent. Across disciplines and sectors, we are struggling to find equitable and just solutions to the problems of our times. "Communities of Practice" are a formal way of uniting and learning together. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the key features of a community of practice and how communities of practice can serve as an ethical safeguard in precarious situations. The presentation will also explore some areas of behavior analytic practice that might benefit from communities of practice and practical strategies for successful communities.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 0.5 | General |
Shahla Alai-Rosales, PHD, BCBA-D, CPBA-AP is a Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas. She has taught courses in Texas, Europe and the Middle East on a variety of topics, including ethics, early autism intervention, parent training, behavioral systems, applied research methods, technology transfer, behavior change techniques, and cultural diversity. Shahla has published and presented research on social justice, ethics in early intervention, play and social skills, family harmony, and supervision and mentoring. Shahla has more than four decades of experience working with families and has trained hundreds of behavior analysts. She has received awards for her teaching (SGA ‘Fessor Graham Award), her work with families (Onassis Scholar Award), and for her sustained contributions (UNT Community Engagement Award, TXABA Career Contributions Award, the GSU Lutzker Distinguished Lecturer, the ABAI Donald M. Baer Distinguished Lecture, and the 23-24 University of Kansas ABS Outstanding Alumni Award). She was a member of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board, the ABAI Practice Board, the ABAI DEI Board, APBA Board, the advisory board for ASAI and an Associate Editor for Behavior Analysis in Practice. Shahla is co-author of Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effective Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor (LeBlanc, Sellers & Alai, 2020) and Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams (Alai-Rosales & Heinkel-Wolfe, 2022).
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
194 research articles with practitioner takeaways
189 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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