Practicing ACT as Self-Care for Behavior Analysts becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside supervision meetings, staff training, clinic systems, and performance review. In Practicing ACT as Self-Care for Behavior Analysts, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better performance, lower drift, and more sustainable team development, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Careers in applied behavior analysis (ABA) can be simultaneously incredibly rewarding and incredibly challenging. Behavior analysts are passionate about what we do and this can contribute to the stress and burnout that many of us struggle with. The organizational behavior management literature is replete with evidence-based practices for creating and maintaining excellent job performance but relatively little research has been done on behavioral approaches to addressing stress and burnout. Of course, stress and burnout are not mental problems, they involve things we do. That is, stress and burnout involve overt and covert behavior-environment relations, so the science of behavior analysis should have something to say about them. Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) is a behavior analytic training approach that has research support for improving resilience in other professions and is just now being implemented for this purpose inside of mainstream ABA practice. Although ACT was originally developed for use by clinical psychologists, it has broadened substantially and is now commonly practiced by many disciplines outside of psychology. Implementing ACT does not require psychotherapy and many of the ACT-based strategies for self-care in the practice of ABA require no specialized training. This presentation will describe small self-care changes that we can put into practice in our daily lives in order to help us thrive while we struggle in our work lives.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Jonathan Tarbox is the Co-Founder and Program Director of the Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis program at the University of Southern California, as well as Director of Research at FirstSteps for Kids. Dr. Tarbox is the past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behavior Analysis in Practice, and a past founding member of the Advisory Board of the Women in Behavior Analysis (WIBA) conference. He has published five books on applied behavior analysis and autism treatment, is the Series Editor of the Elsevier book series Critical Specialties in Treating Autism and Other Behavioral Challenges, and an author of over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in scientific texts. His research focuses on behavioral interventions for teaching complex skills to individuals with autism, Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT), and applications of applied behavior analysis to issues of diversity and social justice. Dr. Tarbox is proud to have multiple neurodivergent family members and is working hard to become a better ally to the Autistic community.
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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.