Ensuring Compassionate Care in Service Delivery Contexts: Developing the Compassionate Care Assessment becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In Ensuring Compassionate Care in Service Delivery Contexts: Developing the Compassionate Care Assessment, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better alignment between intervention and the family context in which it must survive, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) often requires highly trained individuals to implement behavior analytic procedures and behavior intervention plans. While there is justifiably a focus on the fluency of those skill sets with direct interventionists/Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs), there is also a need to ensure that those individuals who implement ABA procedures are compassionate toward the recipient of services. RBTs are required to treat individuals with "compassion, dignity and respect" as a part of the Ethical Code for RBTs. This study presents an assessment tool that was developed to measure compassionate behaviors on the part of the RBT toward individuals receiving ABA services. Acceptable levels of reliability were observed on over half of the items. Potential reasons for agreement/disagreement are discussed along with direct measures of engaged and relaxed behaviors of both staff members and individuals receiving ABA intervention. Implications for practice are reviewed. This represents an important extension of compassionate care to direct recipients of ABA services.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Britany is the Director of Research and Training at Journeys Autism Center located in Mishawaka, IN. She is currently a PhD student in the Institute for Applied Behavioral Studies at Endicott College under the advisement of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. Britany's research interests include direct measures of soft skills, compassionate care, severe problem behavior reduction and the development/measurement of meaningful outcomes for individuals with ASD.
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.