Skill-Based Treatment Across a Multitude of Levels: Staff Training, Preschool, Public School, and Residential Applications is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of school teams and classroom routines, clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Skill-Based Treatment Across a Multitude of Levels: Staff Training, Preschool, Public School, and Residential Applications, 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 →Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skill-Based Treatment (SBT) have gained increasing attention among behavior analysts as efficient, pragmatic, and evidence-based approaches for assessing and addressing challenging behavior across diverse settings and populations. This symposium includes four presentations highlighting the implementation and evaluation of PFA and SBT across multiple contexts. The first presentation shares data from a multiple baseline across participants design evaluating the use of Behavioral Skills Training to teach four behavior technicians to implement the first three components of SBT. The second presentation focuses on the implementation of PFA and SBT in a preschool setting and features an illustrative case study with supporting data. The third presentation examines the application and challenges of PFA and SBT in a public school setting, also accompanied by a representative case study. The fourth and final presentation describes the implementation and challenges of PFA and SBT in a residential setting, again illustrated with a case study and data. Collectively, these talks aim to inform practitioners and researchers about the practical application, outcomes, and implementation considerations of PFA and SBT across diverse educational and clinical environments.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
Awab Abdel-Jalil, MS, BCBA, is the Associate Vice President of Applied Research at Upstate Caring Partners and a PhD candidate at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. T. V. Joe Layng. He began studying behavior analysis as an undergraduate at the University of North Texas and went on to complete his master’s thesis under the guidance of Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz. Awab is a coauthor of Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice and has published on topics including assent, exposure therapies for medical procedures, and the nonlinear constructional approach. He has presented more than 50 symposia, workshops, and papers at major behavioral science and psychology conferences, with expertise spanning nonlinear contingency analysis, the constructional approach, assent, emotions, problem solving, and exposure therapy. He also currently serves as an adjunct instructor in Endicott College’s ABA master’s program and is a Distinguished Scholar at the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.