Giving Grace and Guidance: A New Take on Parent Training becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In Giving Grace and Guidance: A New Take on Parent Training, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better alignment between intervention and the family context in which it must survive, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →A critical element to successful applied behavior analysis (ABA) intervention is the incorporation of parent involvement. Yet less than 50% of families who qualify and could benefit from parent training services enroll and complete them. And while receiving services, parents attend these sessions between 37-98% (Chacko et al., 2016). While many variables contribute to these staggering percentages, it could be that a traditional approach to parent training is viewed as less valuable to the consumer, the parent, especially when faced with competing contingencies. Traditional parent training approaches look to educate parents on different principles or strategies within ABA. Some solutions have been to transform the parent into a technician themselves. Funding agencies have even gone so far as to require parent goals before approving authorizations (Tricare, n.d.). However, a parent will always be a parent even if they received a credential or extensive training. The role of a parent is sacred and, at times, is sacrificed for the important-urgent roles of teacher and advocate parents often play. Yet, the parent roles of comforter, supporter, and safe place are equally as important to our children as teacher and advocate. As such, a holistic parent training curriculum should not shy away from these areas. This presentation makes a case for a holistic parent training curriculum and presents data on parent engagement through two levels of parent training (parent education and parent support) and competency across four tiers of content using a digital personalized system of instruction framework.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Shannon Hill is Editor-In-Chief at CentralReach Institute. She is licensed as a behavior analyst and a licensed professional counselor in her home state of Mississippi, and holds certification at the BCBA-D level from the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Dr. Hill’s work spans 30+ years, and includes clinical work, administration, teaching, and research. Her clinical work began with serving adults with developmental disabilities, focusing on developing vocational, social, and independent living skills and developing interventions and supports for severe problem behavior. She also worked as a consultant in the public schools, conducting functional behavior assessments, developing behavior intervention plans, and collaborating with teachers to design effective instruction for children who were struggling academically and/or behaviorally. At CR Institute, Dr. Hill’s focus is on bringing the science of behavior analysis to the world of online adult education.
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