Social validity has been a defining concept in applied behavior analysis since the field's earliest articulations of what makes behavior analysis applied. The concept refers to the social importance of the goals selected for intervention, the social appropriateness of the procedures used, and the social significance of the outcomes achieved.
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Join Free →Improving the social validity of applied behavior analysis is vital to the survival of our field. Given criticisms from some consumers of ABA, there have been several recent calls for behavior analysts to apply our science using a more compassionate and socially valid approach. This talk will discuss several recent reviews of social validity in the behavior analytic literature. We will explore important findings of these reviews related to assessment methods (e.g., how, when, what type) and the limitations related to assessment respondents (e.g., who gets included and excluded from social validity assessments). We will also discuss practical implications for improving social validity assessment in our practice, including how to design more inclusive assessments that can accommodate respondents of all abilities.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1.5 | Ethics |
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