Understanding Trauma-Informed Care from a Behavioral Perspective 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 from a Behavioral Perspective, 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 →Given the prevalence of trauma in the general population, trauma-informed care (TIC) has come to the forefront of many models of human service delivery. Although somewhat slower than other fields to engage with TIC, the topic has become increasingly popular in behavior analysis. Although discussions of trauma and TIC are likely positive developments for the field, the topic has not been without confusion and controversy. This presentation will identify and define the core commitments of TIC through a behavior analytic lens, drawing from both the behavior analytic literature and interviews with children and adolescents who have experienced abuse and neglect. Importantly, it will provide practical ideas for incorporating TIC into behavior analytic practice and will discuss some of the misconceptions and obstacles that may impede the uptake of a trauma-informed approach in behavior analysis, as well as how those obstacles might be overcome. Learning Objectives · Participants will be able to identify the core commitments of trauma-informed care and define them behaviorally. · Participants will be able to identify behavior analytic practices that are consistent with a trauma-informed care approach. · Participants will be able to identify some misconceptions and obstacles to TIC in behavior analysis and discuss how those issues might be overcome.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
Dr. Jennifer L. Austin has worked as a behavior analytic researcher and clinician for over 25 years. Her research and clinical interests have focused primarily on behavior analytic applications in education, as well as applying our science to populations that are relatively underserved by the field, including prisoners, children in mainstream education, and children who have experienced trauma. Dr. Austin received her Ph.D. from the Florida State University and was formerly Professor of Psychology and Head of Behavior Analysis at the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. In 2020, she received the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis award for her contributions to the international development of behavior analysis. She joined the behavior analysis faculty at Georgia State University in 2022. She is a former president of the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis, the current president-elect of the Georgia Association for Behavior analysis, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and a current Associate Editor of Behavior Analysis in Practice.
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