Toilet Training Within Reach: Evidence-Based Approaches for Practitioners belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Toilet Training Within Reach: Evidence-Based Approaches for Practitioners, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Behavior-analytic toilet training (BATT) often consists of a standard protocol that incorporates prompting and programmed consequences. Research suggests that BATT is effective (e.g., Klassen et al., 2006) and efficient (e.g., Luxem & Christophersen, 1994). However, unique features of the environment and individual client histories affect the application of BATT protocols in practice. To reach the needs of all clients, practitioners often evaluate and customize BATT components in line with behavioral concepts and principles. This workshop will include a description of the steps involved in evidence-based BATT for daytime urine continence, a process guided by research, client-contextual factors, and one's professional-ethical judgment. Participants will work together to adapt toileting procedures for hypothetical clients using the best available evidence and conceptual systems of behavior analysis.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
Amanda Karsten, Ph.D., BCBA-D is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Karsten has served terms on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis in Practice, and she was an Associate Editor for The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Dr. Karsten’s clinical and scholarly interests include practitioner training, social-communication needs of young adults with autism, and the portability and effectiveness of behavioral interventions. She has had the privilege of teaching ethics courses for students of behavior analysis since 2009.
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225 research articles with practitioner takeaways
224 research articles with practitioner takeaways
200 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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