Compassionate leadership in supervision is not a personality style — it is a set of learnable behavioral skills that, when deployed systematically, produce supervisory relationships capable of sustaining bidirectional professional growth. In ABA, the term 'bidirectional growth' is not rhetorical.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Supervisors are responsible for shaping and maintaining the repertoires of their supervisees and trainees. To do so requires that we be able to build trusting supervisory relationships that invite bi-directional growth. In addition, we must be able to solicit, receive, implement, and deliver feedback. In this workshop we will work to develop the skills and resources needed to build a string supervisory relationship and to effectively use feedback as a critical tool for bi-directional growth — that is, our growth and the growth of your supervisees and trainees.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 3 | Supervision |
Tyra Sellers is the owner of TP Sellers, LLC consulting and Scholar-in-Residence at Pass the Big ABA Exam (PTB). She earned a B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Special Education from San Francisco State University, a J.D. from the University of San Francisco, a Ph.D. from Utah State University, and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst®. Her professional and research interests focus on professional ethics, training and supervision, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, and variability. Dr. Sellers has over 30 years of clinical experience working with individuals with disabilities in a wide variety of settings. She has held positions as an Assistant Professor at Utah State University, Director of Ethics at the Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, and CEO of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts(APBA). She carries out reviews for several joirnals, has published several journal articles, four co-authored book chapters, co-authored books focused on supervision and mentorship and applied ethics for behavior analysis, and a workbook pair for consulting and new supervisors. She's been a vegetarian for 40 years, she loves flowers, she thinks Twizzlers should be uninvented, and she hopes you know how amazing you are!
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