Fieldwork experience is the bridge between academic preparation and independent practice in behavior analysis. The quality of that experience — the rigor of skill development, the consistency of assessment, the clarity of expectations — directly determines whether a trainee emerges ready to practice competently, or merely ready to pass a credentialing exam.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via KHY ABA
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →It is the responsibility of every ABA supervisor to provide efficacious supervision to current and prospective certificants (BACB, 2014). The ABA Supervision Handbook offers a systematic method for training professional behavior analysts to acquire clinical competency. In addition, it provides a means to evaluate ongoing supervisee performance of the skills listed within the 5th edition task list. In doing so, The ABA Supervision Handbook allows for the identification of supervisees' mastered skills and areas of improvement, helps to structure the supervision experience and operationalize the practice of supervision, provides competency-based measures, and helps fulfill the supervisor's duty to develop ethical and data-based decision-making systems (4.06; BACB, 2020). As a result, organizations and individuals will benefit from improved supervisory practices and training competent, ethical practitioners. This workshop will therefore focus on teaching participants how to use the Handbook to structure, train, and evaluate supervisees' experiences, including the presentation of scenarios to practice using the competency and ethical decision-making instruments. 1. Participants will learn to assess the supervisee's baseline skills 2. Participants will learn to prioritize core skills 3. Participants will utilize competency-based assessments 4. Participants will utilize an ethics flowchart to teach decision making processes 5. Participants will identify ways to teach and monitor competency for case management skills
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 2 | Supervision |
Dr. Karly Cordova, Ed.D., BCBA-D, received her Bachelor's Degree in Human Growth and Development, her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, and her Doctoral degree in Educational Leadership with a minor in Autism. Dr. Cordova has worked in the field of ABA since 2001, consulting in schools, clinics, group homes, and private homes; and has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2004. Dr. Cordova’s expertise resides in the areas of teaching functional life skills, conducting research in applied settings, disseminating ABA through effective and systematic supervision, and building capacity within organizations. Additionally, Dr. Cordova served as Florida’s Gold Coast ABA’s Vice President and subsequent President, and as a senate board member for the Credentialing of Ethical Behavioral Organizations (COEBO). Dr. Cordova has authored four books on structured approaches to supervision.
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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.