The Development of the Compassionate Care Assessment for ABA Settings is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In The Development of 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 →The behavioral assessment of compassionate skills in an emerging area of research and focus in applied behavior analysis. The project outlined here seek to establish reliable assessments of compassionate behavior displayed by professionals in autism treatment settings. The project specifically described here evaluates the interactions between the direct interventionists (Registered Behavior Technician) and the child with whom they work. The assessment was designed to measure specific behavioral indices of compassion in an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) setting. Data on reliability will of the assessment will be discussed as along with alterations to assessment. Given the nature of the difficulty of operationally defining "compassion", the current project seeks to obtain reliability between observers to validate the use of the assessment as well as discuss the concept of empathy and compassion through a behavioral lens.
| 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.
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280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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