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1 BACB General CEUs $12 51 min On-Demand

General CEU: Spoonful of Sugar? Try This Instead

Spoonful of Sugar. Try This Instead belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support.

Provider: BehaviorLive — via Verbal Beginnings

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Course Description

Refusal to accept medication can impose difficulty for children and for caregivers, especially when the medication is essential to health and wellness. A variety of behavior analytic strategies have been reported upon that address acceptance of oral medication, as well as medication administered via injection. This event will review these strategies. Attendees will also become familiar with a sample protocol to increase acceptance of oral medication.

What You'll Learn

  1. Apply the behavior analytic strategies that have been demonstrated to increase acceptance of oral and injectable medications.
  2. Evaluate how refusal to accept medication impacts health outcomes and the role of ABA in addressing this behavioral challenge.
  3. Identify sample protocols and systematic procedures for gradually increasing medication acceptance in children.

CEU Credits Earned

Certification BodyCreditsType
BACB® 1 General
COA 1

About the Instructor

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Ben Sarcia
MA, BCBA, LBA, BSL

Ben Sarcia joined Verbal Beginnings as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2015. He has served as the Clinical Director of the Healthy Beginnings Behavioral Feeding Program since the program’s inception in 2016.  Ben began his experience with the treatment of pediatric feeding disorders at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Autism Resource Center as a graduate student. After completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Ben went on to work as a behavior analyst in the Feeding Disorders Continuum at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD. Ben’s research interests include functional analysis of inappropriate mealtime behavior, as well as exploring the long-term outcomes of children treated for food refusal utilizing an applied behavior analytic approach. He is also the father of two boys and enjoys lake trips with his family whenever time allows. 

Child SafetyBehaviorOutcomesFunctional SkillsAutismFeedingMedication
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Clinical Disclaimer

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.

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