2024 Conference Introduction + Invited Speaker: What Does It Mean to be Trauma-Informed. Considerations for Behavior Analytic Research and Practice is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making.
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Join Free →Given the prevalence of trauma in the general population, trauma-informed care (TIC) has come to the forefront of many models of human service delivery. Because the populations with whom behavior analysts typically work are at elevated risk for experiencing traumatic events, the field of behavior analysis is beginning to explore the relevance of TIC to behavior analytic work. However, discussions of TIC across behavior analytic forums have sometimes been fraught with misconceptions about what it means to be trauma-informed and how the framework could be implemented in behavior analytic settings. Drawing on the TIC and behavior analytic literatures, as well as interviews with children and adolescents who have experienced abuse and neglect, this presentation will define the core commitments of TIC through a behavior analytic lens. It will explore the potential benefits of TIC, providing recent examples from the behavior analytic literature. The presentation also will identify common misconceptions about what it means to be trauma informed and how those misconceptions could impede good practice. Importantly, it will identify areas where more research is needed to identify both the benefits and potential limitations of TIC for behavior analysis.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Jennifer L. Austin has worked as a behavior analytic researcher and clinician for over 25 years. Her research and clinical interests have focused primarily on behavior analytic applications in education, as well as applying our science to populations that are relatively underserved by the field, including prisoners, children in mainstream education, and children who have experienced trauma. Dr. Austin received her Ph.D. from the Florida State University and was formerly Professor of Psychology and Head of Behavior Analysis at the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. In 2020, she received the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis award for her contributions to the international development of behavior analysis. She joined the behavior analysis faculty at Georgia State University in 2022. She is a former president of the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis, the current president-elect of the Georgia Association for Behavior analysis, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and a current Associate Editor of Behavior Analysis in Practice.
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