Social Validity: How Behavior Analysts Can Grow a (Bigger) Heart becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Social Validity: How Behavior Analysts Can Grow a (Bigger) Heart, 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 →Social validity is the social significance of treatment or intervention goals, the social acceptability of treatment or intervention procedures, and the social importance of effects resulting from treatment or intervention. This webinar will provide an overview of social validity literature and best practices. In addition, this talk will discuss social validity scales relating to treatment evaluation and intervention ratings, as well as the difference between subjective rating scales and objective techniques of evaluation. Finally, the ethics of social validity will be explored by discussing how incorporating client assent adheres to the BACB revised ethics code and makes for more meaningful applications of applied behavior analysis. In this workshop, participants will learn how to incorporate social validity into behavior analytic practice.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 2 | General |
| QABA | 1.75 | General |
| IBAO | 2 | — |
| BICC | 0 | — |
Dr. Katerina Monlux (She/Her), Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA is a Licensed Behavior Analyst at the University of Washington Autism Center. She is a part of the ABA clinical team and provides clinical support for IBIS infant and sleep research studies. She earned her MS from California State University, Northridge, in Applied Behavior Analysis. With her dissertation research conducted at Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Monlux received her Ph.D. from Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway) in behavior analysis, focusing on telehealth training for caregivers of children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). Dr. Monlux worked on several large federally funded studies such as ESDM, PATH, TADPOLE, and other caregiver training programs. In addition, she has worked with families of children with autism spectrum disorder and FXS as a clinician and researcher for 13 years. Dr. Monlux presents annually at national and international conferences and publishes peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters on parent training, early intervention, early markers of developmental delays, functional analyses, and telehealth-delivered service models.
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280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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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.