Keynote: Words becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Words, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →How is it we as women and specifically as behavior analysts, gain a seat at the table? The table of influence, the table of decision making and direction? The tables beyond our immediate span of influence? This applies to all of us, regardless of our gender-identity. Words are at the center of what happens to us in life—the form of the words need not be overt, not necessarily spoken. Words spoken to us. Words we speak. Sometimes silence is the loudest word in the room. Words can be read or heard from afar. Words anticipated and imagined but not spoken can inhibit or encourage us. Words that contain should, must and ought. Words that contain do, strive, do again. The focus is on the controlling and liberating effects of words, symbolic verbal behavior as Skinner defined them, words as labels limiting and expanding potential, words that are the essence of what we call emotions, words as to how we see ourselves. through both private and overt events. All-consuming and all controlling, often moving from rule governance to contingency shaping consequences for doing or not doing. A few guidelines from my life about that elusive table will be offered and, as well, the idea of a code of personal conduct to ensure that what is said and done by us as behavior analysts does not limit but lifts the search for a seat at the table. OBJECTIVES: Define a behavior-analytic view of words and their impact. Assess how easily word misdirect and create divisions; how words limit or advance potential in expected and unexpected ways. List what the speaker considered important in influencing her behavior that may have meaning for others. Discuss a Code of Personal Commitment to actively support greater influence by one another to seats at that illusive table.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 11.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font: 6.7px Arial; font-kerning: none} Darnell Lattal, Ph.D., has spent a lifetime on issues of coercion and its fallout across educational, health, mental health, workplace and political/cultural settings. Her current interest is in increasing cultural conditions that accelerate learning American workplaces and the culture at large. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., American Studies, English major; Sociology-Economics, minor (1965); M.A., Special Education (1968), Johns Hopkins University (Honors; multicultural studies, 1970), & West Virginia University (Ph.D. behavior-based clinical psychology; 1980). License 1982. Books: Clark & Lattal Workplace Ethics: Winning the Integrity Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993; University Press, 1998), Ethics at Work (Performance Management Publications, 2005), Lattal & Clark, A Good Days Work (2008), McGraw Hill, Ishida & Lattal, Sustaining a Stress-Free Workplace using Positive Reinforcement (English translation of Japanese title) (Toyo Keiza Press, 2010; printed in Japanese language only); Daniels & Lattal, Life’s a PIC/NIC® when you understand behavior (Sloan Publishing, 2017); Daniels& Lattal, Live a Better Life, 2020, PM Publications; Lattal & Zuluaga The Wisdom Factor (Fall, 2020) Lattal & Lattal Creating a Harassment-Free Workplace, Spring, (2021) Work-life: Teacher: general and special education; Clinician: hospitals, prisons, mental health centers; Special Assistant to the Provost and President’s Cabinet, WVU, Adjunct clinical professor, WVU; Consultant, Corporate Behavior Analysts (1986-93), Sr. Consultant, the Continuous Learning Group (1993-1997); SVP of Strategic Consulting and then President and CEO of Aubrey Daniels International (1997-1914); Executive Director of the AD Institute, a 501c3 (2014-2016). Currently CEO ABA Technologies, Inc., a behavior-based online course development and delivery company Sample memberships that were important to her through the years: 1960s: Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (SNCC); League of Women Votes; 1970s Various feminists organizations; General: ABAI, Board of Directors, CCBS and Women@theFrontier; Board of Advisors, Arts & Sciences, U of Ala; Volunteer, the Lowcountry Symphony Orchestra organization; Memory Matters, Alzheimer’s Association: Honors: Brady Gun Violence Reduction Bill signing by President Clinton & recognition for work on reducing violence in America at the White House; Outstanding Graduate, A&S, WVU; Lifetime Achievement Award, OBM Network ABAI, Board of Advisors, University of Alabama College of A&S. She and her husband live in Hilton Head Island, SC and Morgantown, WV. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
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