Prosthetic environments: Using behavior analysis to improve the lives of people with dementia belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter adult services and community participation. In Prosthetic environments: Using behavior analysis to improve the lives of people with dementia, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Aging may result in a loss of or change in sources of reinforcement. Biological and environmental factors associated with aging might be ameliorated by what Skinner termed 'prosthetic environments'; environments augmented to enable the person to contact reinforcement. Changes might include altering the physical space, wearable devices (e.g., spectacles or smart devices), teaching new skills, and identifying and enhancing sources of social and tangible reinforcement. In this talk, examples of behavior-analytic research on prosthetic environments will be presented, including augmenting social contingencies (specifically, using awareness training to teach direct care staff to reduce infantilizing communication), assessing preferences, and adapting the physical environment. Evidence for a need to adapt behavioral tactics for older adults to ensure their effectiveness and acceptability will also be presented.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
| FL MH/PSY | 1 | — |
Rebecca is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (Doctoral level) and New Zealand Registered Psychologist. Having returned home from seven years at Bangor University in Wales, Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer and Behaviour Analysis Programme Director at the University of Auckland. She is an experienced and innovative teacher for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, with a passion for behavioral pedagogy. Rebecca has served on editorial boards for journals such as the European Journal of Behaviour Analysis. She served on the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis Board of Directors and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Rebecca has been an invited speaker in research and clinical settings around the world, and her research interests include expanding the application of behavior analysis, stimulus control, behavior-analytic approaches to working with people with dementia and traumatic brain injury, the translation of clinical and laboratory research to applied settings, applied animal behavior, and teaching behavior analysis. Rebecca has been a consultant for the Welsh Government’s Behavioural Science unit, and as a clinician, she has worked with recidivist youth offenders, with adults and children with brain injury, adults with dementia, and adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
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