Workforce stability is a direct clinical variable in ABA. When staff turnover is high, clients experience repeated disruptions to their therapeutic relationships, inconsistency in procedure implementation, interruptions to skill acquisition programs, and exposure to novel therapists who must re-establish rapport and recalibrate their procedural precision.
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