Sexual health, consent, and pleasure are among the most fundamental aspects of human experience, yet they remain among the least addressed in behavior analytic training and practice. For Board Certified Behavior Analysts working with individuals with disabilities and neurodivergent populations, the clinical significance of engaging with these topics is both urgent and profound.
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Join Free →Emerging behavior analytic research on teaching consent skills offers a promising model for assessing and teaching skill sets (Bell, 2020). Bell also notes the importance of using behavior analytic principles to shift consent culture (2020). The Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group (LCSRG) offers up a conceptual definition of consent with four core components, including but not limited to consent being a mand-tact hybrid verbal operant and consent being present under contextual appetitive control (Sandoz & LCSRG, 2021). This presentation will examine an ethical foundation for consent education utilizing a focus on teaching consent skills and self-advocacy skills which minimize harm and maximize contextual appetitive control. Considerations and tools for working within scope of competence (ECBA; BACB, 2020; Brodhead, Quigley, & Wilczynski, 2018) using a PLISSIT model (Annon, 1976) will also be reviewed.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Ethics |
Worner Leland, MS, BCBA, LBA (they/them pronouns) is a researcher and educator at Upswing Advocates and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at Empowered: A Center for Sexuality as well as at Precision ABA. For the past several years, Worner has also served as a sex educator with a focus on expanding affirming sexual education, consent and assent education, body autonomy education, and harm reduction in behavior analysis. Worner is also a Past President and the current Research and Dissemination Liaison of the ABAI Sexual Behavior Research and Practice SIG.
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