Motivation: Communicating and Collaborating with Teachers and Other Non-ABA Professionals 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 Motivation: Communicating and Collaborating with Teachers and Other Non-ABA Professionals, for this course, the practical stakes show up in feasible school-based support, stronger collaboration, and better student participation, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Motivation is an extremely common topic in clinical care for behavior analysts and other non-ABA professionals, but our definitions are not the same. The manner in which teachers, parents, and other mental health professionals discuss motivation uses different terminology and references different factors than the typical behavior analytic model of motivation. In this presentation, we discuss and model key strategies for discussing motivation with teachers and multidisciplinary teams and tackle how to bridge the gap between MOs and the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. We also present methods for approaching criticisms of extrinsic motivation and heavy reliance of positive reinforcement systems as well as how to increase motivation for clients and students in different learning settings outside of ABA therapy.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Molly Hankla served children and families at FCI from 2016 through 2022. She began her career at FCI as Assistant Clinical Director, then as Director of Behavior Analysis Services, and finally as Director of Clinical Services.She obtained her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida in 2013 and an M.A. in Psychology, with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis, from the University of the Pacific in 2016, studying under Carolynn Kohn and Matthew Normand.In her spare time, Ms. Hankla enjoys practicing yoga, traveling, hiking, and playing with her dog and cat.Specializations: School consultation, parent training, and skill acquisition. Her research interests include assessment and skill acquisition for novel behaviors and applications in underserved and under researched populations.
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