The Inherent Risks of Dissemination, and How Embracing Privilege and Positionality Might be the Key matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In The Inherent Risks of Dissemination, and How Embracing Privilege and Positionality Might be the Key, 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 →One of our jobs as behavior analysts is to disseminate our science and help make a positive impact in the lives of others. However, when disseminating there is an inherent risk of saviorism and unintended harm, especially when the dissemination efforts start in the Western world and/or cross cultural borders. Add to that the fact that the person disseminating is always in a position of privilege and power, it becomes easy to become skeptical of people's intentions, or hesitant to continue disseminating. Where is the balance of wanting to do good without inadvertently causing harm? As a US-based behavior analyst whose work is primarily non-US based, Gabi Torres spends a lot of time contemplating these questions. Join her as she shares her story, reflects on the tools she has used to guide her, and identifies how her reframed relationship to privilege and positionality has taught her how to be a more responsible disseminator, and create spaces that are truly diverse, equitable and inclusive.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Gabi Torres is originally from the island of Curacao and has been working in the field of behavior analysis for over 20 years. She received her masters degree from Teachers College Columbia and became a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) that same year. After establishing and managing the ABA department for a multidisciplinary (SLP, OT, PT) center for a couple of years, Gabi owned and operated her own ABA center for 10 years. During this time Gabi's focus was always on supporting her employees. Her center functioned as a training site for various university programs and included extensive RBT and BCBA training modules and supervised practice. .In recent years training and development is at the core of everything Gabi does. She helped start the first ABA center in Curacao and is responsible for the training of all of the center's staff. Additionally, through her company, Find Your Balance LLC, she provides training courses for the International Behavior Therapist (IBT) and International Behavior Analyst (IBA) certifications, supervision for trainees, mentoring and professional development for behavior analysts and clinical leaders and consulting to small-to-mid sized organizations. She serves on various boards and committees and is the President for the Caribbean Association for Behaviour Analysis and a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the IBAO. As a doctoral student she has also started participating in research and she is the Lab Manager for the EDIAB Lab.Her areas of interest include OBM, ACT, leadership development, training and development, supervision and mentoring, and DEI, specifically increased equity and access to resources for those pursuing careers in behavior analysis.
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