Self-Motivation for Practitioners: Strategies for Maximizing Ones Productivity and Work Enjoyment in Human Services is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Self-Motivation for Practitioners: Strategies for Maximizing Ones Productivity and Work Enjoyment in Human Services, 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 →This discussion will focus on how human service practitioners can achieve and maintain self-motivation to be professionally productive and experience enjoyment on the job during the best and worst of times. Based on the recently published book, "Self-Motivation for Professional Practitioners", self-motivation will be presented in terms of practitioners actively using strategies developed through research and application in behavior therapy and analysis to promote their work productivity and enjoyment. Examples of self-motivation strategies to be discussed include short- and long-term goal setting, self-recording, self-reinforcement, and specific ways to promote enjoyment during unpleasant work situations (e.g., when working with unrealistic caseloads or working for a problematic supervisor).
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Dennis Reid has over 45 years of experience as a clinician and supervisor in educational, residential, and community support settings for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism, and has consulted with human service agencies in the majority of states of the United States as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He has published over 140 refereed journal articles and book chapters focusing on applied behavior analysis and authored or co-authored 15 books. In 2007 he was awarded Fellowship status in the Association for Behavior Analysis International and in 2006 received the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities International Research Award. Dennis is the founder and current director of the Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center in Morganton, North Carolina.
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258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
239 research articles with practitioner takeaways
233 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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