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General CEU: Compassionate Care: Building a Model of Cultural Safety and Responsiveness

Compassionate Care: Building a Model of Cultural Safety and Responsiveness matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In Compassionate Care: Building a Model of Cultural Safety and Responsiveness, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better alignment between intervention and the family context in which it must survive, not in abstract discussion alone.

Provider: BehaviorLive — via Illinois Association of Behavior Analysis

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Course Description

Neurodiversity affirming and trauma informed care are hot buzz phrases trending throughout the field of ABA. However a true fundamental shift requires us to use our own science to identify historic and current systems hindering our ability to truly embody the work of compassionate care. During this presentation, participants will learn and understand interlocking behavioral contingencies, resulting cultural consequences, cultural heredity, and beginning actions steps towards deconstructing remaining systems maintaining marginalized communities receiving services.

What You'll Learn

  1. Describe the role of cultural responsiveness in the ethical delivery of behavior analytic services.
  2. Explain how trauma-informed principles can be integrated into behavior analytic assessment and intervention.
  3. Evaluate common critiques and misconceptions about applied behavior analysis and formulate evidence-based responses.

CEU Credits Earned

Certification BodyCreditsType
BACB® 1 General

About the Instructor

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Mari-Luci Cerda
PhD, LBA-TX, BCBA

Mari-Luci Mesoamerican Indigenous woman, wife, mom, Autist, and board-certified behavior analyst with over 20 years experience working with Neurodivergent individuals and their families. A former special education teacher, behavior specialist, and inclusion coordinator of 17 years, Mari has a deep passion for advocacy work with both schools and clinics to develop trauma-responsive, neurodiversity responsive practices. Her work focuses on shifting language and systems used in practice to reframe and move away from unintentional ableist frameworks that are often rooted in traditional therapy and educational settings. Much of this work pulls from IRM (Indigenous Research Methods) and models of care rooted in Cultural Safety and Responsiveness. She recently opened her own trauma-responsive center, The Lighthouse Learning Center in Lubbock, TX with the goal of creating a model of true neurodiversity affirming and assent-based practices. Mari is also the co-founder of the The LEAP Institute, a non-profit with a mission to address the disparity of diverse practitioners in the ABA field. Social Media handles:@Autie.Analyst@Lighthouse.Learning.Center@Leap.Institute 

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Clinical Disclaimer

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.

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