Adherence to Medical Routines: Promoting Health and Happiness Without Restraints or Sedation matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in clinical documentation, payer communication, supervision records, and leadership review. In Adherence to Medical Routines: Promoting Health and Happiness Without Restraints or Sedation, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Women in Behavior Analysis
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Join Free →All individuals, regardless of age, race, gender, or diagnosis, must learn to tolerate routine medical procedures. This symposium demonstrates how to effectively and efficiently teach individuals to adhere to medical procedures without using restraints or medications. In the first study, two men with severe problem behavior learned to cooperate with a routine ear exam or anesthetic mask application using stimulus fading. The second study evaluates the effects of an assessment protocol to teach dental tolerance and well-check procedures on both operant and physiological behaviors. All participants showed an increase in compliance and a decrease in physiological or stress measures.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dig into the research behind this topic — plain-English summaries written for BCBAs.
280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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