Police Brutality and the Black Community: Views from a Behavior Analytic Lens becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside community routines and natural environments. In Police Brutality and the Black Community: Views from a Behavior Analytic Lens, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer case conceptualization, better instructional targets, and stronger generalization, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Police brutality against people of color in America has persisted despite remarkable gains resulting from the civil rights movement. B. F. Skinner's account of human phylogeny, ontogeny, and culture is as profoundly relevant toward understanding this problem as it was during his lifetime. Recent scholarship on derived relational responding adds to the analysis of human practices that persist long after their acceptability has passed. We will review the history of police conduct toward Black Americans and place this history in the contexts of Skinnerian and relational frame theory analyses of human behavior. We will also review the strengths and weaknesses of numerous redresses currently in use or commonly advocated and propose new strategies derived from the experimental analysis of human behavior. Participants will be able to: Relate Skinner's analysis of controlling and controlled groups to racial injustice and police brutality Analyze police brutality and racial injustice through a behavior analytic and RFT lens Compare strengths and weaknesses of current redresses to police brutality Identify recommendations derived from the experimental analysis of human behavior to address police brutality
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
Thomas G. Szabo, PhD., BCBA-D is a professor at Florida Institute of Technology. He graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno under the mentorship of W. Larry Williams and Steven C. Hayes. Over the last 15 years, Tom has sought to develop iterations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy suitable to the needs of ABA practitioners and within their specialized scope of practice. He has offered ACT training to parents, children, senior executives and frontline staff, and couples learning effective partner skills. With his students, Dr. Szabo is currently investigating ACT and RFT strategies to promote learning and improved performance as well as Prosocial in the workplace. Dr. Szabo is also the second chair of an international non-governmental organization, Commit & Act, which teaches women, children, and couples in Sierra Leone behavior-based strategies for partnership and empowerment. He has published empirical and conceptual papers, book chapters and is currently writing a skills manual for behavior analysts learning ACT.
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