Let's Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child's Behavior is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Let's Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child's Behavior, 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.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via RethinkBH
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Dr. Jill Dardig and Dr. Bill Heward discuss their new book Let's Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child's Behavior with Dr. Bridget Taylor. The panelists will discuss research on contracting, best practices to use with family members, and advice for behavior analysts working with families.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
William L. Heward, Ed.D., BCBA-D, is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. He has taught at universities in Brazil, Japan, Portugal, and Singapore and given workshops or lectures in 25 other countries. A Fellow and Past President of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Dr. Heward's publications include co-authoring the textbooks Applied Behavior Analysis and Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education, which together have reached more than a million readers worldwide. Coauthored with his wife Dr. Jill Dardig, Let’s Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child’s Behavior embodies their shared mission of putting the power and potential of behavior analysis for positive behavior change directly in the hands of end users, in this case families and professionals who support them. Awards recognizing Dr. Heward's contributions to education and behavior analysis include the Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 25, the Ellen P. Reese Award for Communication of Behavioral Concepts from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and the Murray Sidman Award for Enduring Professional Contributions to Behavior Analysis from BABAT.
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