KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Problems with the Players: A Survival Guide for Behavior Analysts in School Settings is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of school teams and classroom routines. In KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Problems with the Players: A Survival Guide for Behavior Analysts in School Settings, 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 →Achieving behavior change in a school setting is a group effort. It isn't accomplished solely by the behavior analyst and RBT, and even the teacher cannot typically change behavior alone. It takes a team. Certainly, some people will have a greater impact than others, but to get the fastest and most durable change, we all have to be on the same page. Of course, the page itself needs to be written properly, because everybody agreeing on the wrong things does nothing for the child except provide "ineffective consistency." There are a number of players when it comes to behavior change in school settings. We must account for not only the contingencies operating on the student, but those operating on ourselves as clinicians, the teachers, the paraprofessionals, the parents (and sometimes the parents' attorneys), the IEP teams, and the administrators. These are the major "players" in the education-based behavior change game. This presentation focuses on some problems that can occur among these players and how to detect and avoid them when working in educational settings.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
Dr. Merrill Winston is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has worked in the field of Developmental Disabilities for over 35 years. He has worked in small group homes, large residential facilities, secured facilities, family homes, and schools and has worked with a broad population who exhibited behavior problems that ranged from mild to life-threatening. Dr. Winston is comfortable working with both verbal and non-verbal individuals and both children and adults with a range of diagnoses. His strengths are relating to direct-care staff in a manner that sets them at ease as well as working in real-time with children and adults. Dr. Winston excels in public speaking and has given numerous presentations at various professional conferences throughout the country. His areas of interest are crisis prevention and intervention, psychotropic medication usage with special populations, and the development and implementation of training programs designed to increase the skill levels of parents, professionals, teachers, and direct-care staff.
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