The integration of compassionate care into behavior analytic practice has emerged as one of the most significant professional developments in recent years. While behavior analysis has always been concerned with improving the lives of the individuals it serves, the explicit focus on compassion as a definable, measurable, and teachable component of practice represents a maturation of the field's understanding of what effective service delivery entails.
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Join Free →There has been a call to action for Compassionate Care to be integrated into behavior analytic practice in the last several years. The Ethics Code has highlighted this mandate, and practitioners have embraced the goal. Challenges to the integration of this value into care have included definitional and measurement hurdles, as well as concerns about terminology, generality, and authenticity. In this presentation, several empirical studies will be reviewed that advance our understanding of how to define, measure, teach, and train this skill set. Future research directions will be highlighted, and general guidelines for clinical incorporation will be shared.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | Ethics |
| COA | 1 | — |
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Dean of Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 14 years. She also does research with the team at Melmark. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1990. She previously worked for 16 years at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University. Her interests center on defining best practice and humane ABA techniques, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into service delivery, enhancing the ethical conduct of practitioners, training staff to be effective at collaboration, and identifying effective instructinal methods in higher education. She is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, on the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in Practice, on the ABA Ethics Hotline, and as an advisor to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
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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.