Invited Speaker: Defining, Measuring, Teaching, and Training Compassionate Care Skills: Implications for the Practice of Behavior Analysis matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Defining, Measuring, Teaching, and Training Compassionate Care, 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.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Women in Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Over the last several years, there has been a call to action within behavior analysis; compassionate care has been discussed as important and as vital to our outcomes and impact. Several researchers have tackled the formidable challenges associated with this skill set; important components of integrating this value-based skill into practice include defining compassionate care, identifying the elements of compassion, and outlining ways in which our practice should reflect it. In this presentation, progress in several areas will be reviewed, including the conceptual understanding of compassion, the qualitative analysis of client and caregiver experiences regarding compassionate interactions, the development of tools to assess the extent to which practitioners are engaging in compassionate behaviors, and teaching and training the specific skills associated with compassionate care. Aspects of this skill set that are most relevant to interactions with caregivers will be highlighted; in addition, extensions of this skill set to direct care interventionists will also be explored. Special attention will be given to the refinement of our understanding or related and adjacent skills. In addition, crucial issues in generalization, authenticity, and social validity will be explored.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Dean of Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 14 years. She also does research with the team at Melmark. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1990. She previously worked for 16 years at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University. Her interests center on defining best practice and humane ABA techniques, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into service delivery, enhancing the ethical conduct of practitioners, training staff to be effective at collaboration, and identifying effective instructinal methods in higher education. She is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, on the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in Practice, on the ABA Ethics Hotline, and as an advisor to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
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.