Building a Collaborative Partnership with Caregivers becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside joint consultation, shared care planning, school-team communication, and interdisciplinary handoffs. In Building a Collaborative Partnership with Caregivers, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer roles, fewer duplicated efforts, and better coordinated intervention, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Illinois Association of Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →What is the difference between "Parent Training" and "Caregiver Collaboration" and why does it matter? Should we be teaching to caregivers or teaching with caregivers? This presentation will examine this important distinction. Rapport building between the therapist and caregiver is critically important and the language and approach of the Behavior Analyst will play a large role in the strength of this relationship. This presentation, given by two caregivers in the autistic community, as well as a behavior analyst, will focus on collaborative programming aimed at improving the social validity and outcomes through effective caregiver and therapist relationships. Objectives: 1. Attendees will describe the importance of family collaboration in effective interventions that improve the quality of life for consumers. 2. Attendees will define ways to engage in collaborative program development with families. 3. Attendees will analyze strategies that build effective relationships with families. 4. Attendees will identify behaviors that strengthen and weaken client and therapist relationships
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Bobbi Rogers is the Sr. Director of Community and Industry Relations for Proud Moments Therapy. She is the founder of Families FIRST. Families FIRST is a nonprofit agency that has provided support and services for families of children with Autism for 20 years. She is a board member of the NY State Association for Behavior Analysis (NYSABA) and co-chair of NYSABA Parent, Family and Advocate. She is the co-creator of the Harmony in the Home Project, which provides intensive support for Autistic children and their families in Central NY. She created multiple new programs and support options over the last decade across the Upstate New York area including a crisis intervention program that has been helping families since 2006. She speaks nationally on providing compassionate support options for Autistic children and families. She lives in Central NY with her three children and husband. She is the proud parent of a 23 year old Autistic young adult. Bobbi has published in Behavior Analysis in Practice and has been an invited speaker at State Autism and ABA conferences.
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.