Trauma-informed Care Considerations in Profound Autism - Part 1 [Webinar] becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In Trauma informed Care Considerations in Profound Autism Part 1 [Webinar], 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.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Profound Autism Summit
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →People with developmental disability have an elevated risk of adverse experiences across the lifespan. Understanding these risks and teaching skills that promote independence, communication, and self-advocacy may help keep people safer. This session will discuss trauma-informed care principles and skills that may be taught in order to reduce the likelihood of experiencing adverse events and improve the quality of life and safety for those with profound autism.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
| NASW | 0 | — |
| PSY | 0 | — |
Gabi Morgan, Ph.D., BCBA-D is an assistant professor in applied behavior analysis at Bay Path University and a member of the board of Massachusetts Applied Behavior Analysis (MassABA) regional organization. She received her doctorate in ABA from Endicott College where her research focused on training teachers to use time-based schedules to prevent escalation of challenging behavior in preschoolers with documented backgrounds of adverse experiences. Over the last 25 years she has sought to expand her knowledge and practice of ABA in her work with children of all ages and skill levels, their families, and in the training of others in ABA. Her research interests include exploring how ABA can help improve outcomes for children whose behavior has been shaped through adverse experiences and training behavior analysts and teachers to employ conceptually systematic and trauma-informed behavior analytic approaches.
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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.