Challenging behaviors including meltdowns, shutdowns, aggression, and self-injury affect as many as 50% of autistic children and have far-reaching consequences for individual and family wellbeing. These behaviors can create safety risks, limit access to educational and community settings, restrict social participation, interfere with daily living skills, and increase family stress and isolation.
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Join Free →As many as 50% of autistic children engage in behaviors such as meltdowns, shutdowns, aggression, or self-injury that can have safety implications and reduce overall quality of life. Impacts include difficulties engaging in or completing daily living skills, reductions in access to educational services, and increases in social isolation. The recognized struggles parents face in effectively supporting their autistic child have sparked increased interest in evidence-based parent training (PT) programs, as they empower parents to become an agent of change as they learn approaches that are designed to better scaffold and respond to their child's needs. The Research Unit on Behavioral Interventions (RUBI) Autism Network developed a manualized parent training program that utilizes techniques grounded in behavior analytic principles to teach families of autistic children how to successfully navigate their child's behaviors. With over a dozen published research studies on the RUBI program we have found that it is acceptable to parents, can be reliably delivered by trained therapists, and reduces children's quality of life impacting behaviors. RUBI is emerging as an important component of short-term, effective treatment for autistic children and has been expanding reach into community-based clinical practice. By the end of this webinar, viewers will have a better understanding of the RUBI Parent Training program as a front-line intervention that is responsive to supporting neurodiverse youth and their families
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 2 | General |
| QABA | 2 | General |
| IBAO | 2 | — |
| BICC | 2 | Ethics |
Karen Bearss, PhD is Vice President of Caregiver-Mediated Solutions at Catalight and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She previously served as Clinical Director of the Seattle Children's Autism Center where she also directed the RUBI Clinic. Dr. Bearss earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida. She is a leading expert in the development, testing, and implementation of caregiver-mediated interventions for autistic youth with co-occurring challenging behaviors. Dr. Bearss is the first author of the RUBI Parent Training Manual, now available as part of the Programs that Work series at Oxford University Press.
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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.