Burnout, compassion fatigue, and early career exit are significant challenges in applied behavior analysis. The field serves populations with complex needs, often in under-resourced settings, with high emotional and cognitive demands placed on practitioners at every level.
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Join Free →A long and fulfilling career in any profession requires planning, self-monitoring, and thoughtful decision-making at critical choice points over the course of years and decades. This presentation describes some of the likely threats to sustained career enjoyment and strategies for minimizing these threats and maximizing career satisfaction. Attendees will complete activities to facilitate their skills for enjoyable career engagement. There will be opportunities for live discussion and questions and answers consistent with an engaged community of practice. Learning Objectives: 1. Attendees will be able to identify three potential career threats. 2. Attendees will be able to identify why it is important to be able to articulate your professional values and reinforcers. 3. Attendees will identify their personal and professional reinforcers. 4. Attendees will be able to identify multiple strategies for minimizing threats to sustained career enjoyment.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 3 | Supervision |
Linda A. LeBlanc, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Licensed Psychologist is the President of LeBlanc Behavioral Consulting and the Executive Director of the Action Institute for Outcomes Research. She is the past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, a Fellow of ABAI, and the 2016 recipient of the APA Nathan H. Azrin Award for Distinguished Contribution in Applied Behavior Analysis. Her professional interests include behavioral treatments and outcomes, supervision and mentoring, and ethics.
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187 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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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.