"Where do you think you're going?" The Analysis and Treatment of Wandering and Elopement in School Settings becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside home routines and caregiver-led implementation, school teams and classroom routines. For this course, the practical stakes show up in feasible school-based support, stronger collaboration, and better student participation, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Elopement is a top problem in many schools, residential facilities, and private homes. Whether the population is children or adults, elopement and its sub-categories can be both time-consuming and dangerous for staff and the individuals they serve. This presentation focuses not just on the setting events and maintaining variables responsible for elopement, but on the functional sub-categories which include running from aversives, running to access reinforcers (locations/people/activities/tangibles), running to access "being chased" as a reinforcer and running as "confrontation seeking" (the reinforcer is not the chasing per se, but staff going "hands on" and the ensuing struggle and signs of damage). There will also be a focus on the variants of elopement which include wandering (in the right room, but moving all around the room almost constantly), out of area (not wandering around, but in the wrong place), and out of seat. Guidelines will be presented for differentially diagnosing the sort of elopement problem as well as some treatment directions.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
Dr. Merrill Winston is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has worked in the field of Developmental Disabilities for over 35 years. He has worked in small group homes, large residential facilities, secured facilities, family homes, and schools and has worked with a broad population who exhibited behavior problems that ranged from mild to life-threatening. Dr. Winston is comfortable working with both verbal and non-verbal individuals and both children and adults with a range of diagnoses. His strengths are relating to direct-care staff in a manner that sets them at ease as well as working in real-time with children and adults. Dr. Winston excels in public speaking and has given numerous presentations at various professional conferences throughout the country. His areas of interest are crisis prevention and intervention, psychotropic medication usage with special populations, and the development and implementation of training programs designed to increase the skill levels of parents, professionals, teachers, and direct-care staff.
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