Between Now and Dreams: Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism 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. For this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer roles, fewer duplicated efforts, and better coordinated intervention, 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 →Authors Shahla Alai-Rosales and Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe join Bridget Taylor to discuss their book, Between Now and Dreams: Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism. The conversation will focus on central concepts and how the book can serve as a clinical tool when engaging parents in treatment to facilitate collaboration. Shahla and Peggy will share why they wrote the book and how they chose the key ideas that inform and amplify meaningful and courageous parenting. The discussion also explores some eternal and contemporary parenting concerns and how these relate to autistic children and to the applied behavior analyst. Finally, suggestions are made for how to engage in productive collaborations that center on collaborative learning in the context of valued family well-being and neurodiversity, and relationship development and love. Purchase the book here: Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Shahla Alai-Rosales, PHD, BCBA-D, CPBA-AP is a Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas. She has taught courses in Texas, Europe and the Middle East on a variety of topics, including ethics, early autism intervention, parent training, behavioral systems, applied research methods, technology transfer, behavior change techniques, and cultural diversity. Shahla has published and presented research on social justice, ethics in early intervention, play and social skills, family harmony, and supervision and mentoring. Shahla has more than four decades of experience working with families and has trained hundreds of behavior analysts. She has received awards for her teaching (SGA ‘Fessor Graham Award), her work with families (Onassis Scholar Award), and for her sustained contributions (UNT Community Engagement Award, TXABA Career Contributions Award, the GSU Lutzker Distinguished Lecturer, the ABAI Donald M. Baer Distinguished Lecture, and the 23-24 University of Kansas ABS Outstanding Alumni Award). She was a member of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board, the ABAI Practice Board, the ABAI DEI Board, APBA Board, the advisory board for ASAI and an Associate Editor for Behavior Analysis in Practice. Shahla is co-author of Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effective Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor (LeBlanc, Sellers & Alai, 2020) and Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams (Alai-Rosales & Heinkel-Wolfe, 2022).
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.