Ethics CEU: Will You Know It When You See It? Training in the Compassionate Revolution

Provider: BehaviorLive — via New York State Association for Behavior Analysis

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Course Description

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has faced criticism for rigid tendencies toward program development and specifically interpersonal interactions. Failure to create trusting, reciprocal, and enduring relationships with others threatens to jeopardize the field's reputation and conceal more substantial outcomes. Over the past decade, several publications have reached a consensus for ABA to further embrace a compassionate approach in its practice. This call to action produced important conversations over whether this embodied a novel approach altogether or a refinement of our existing foundations. Such questions demand an empirical answer to these needs, and tools that could be used to teach others how to engage in compassionate interactions with clients, caregivers, and colleagues. This presentation will review this chronology framed as a revolution consisting of three stages: radical, revolt, and reform. A novel tool, the Compassionate Care Assessment- Revised Edition (CCARE) will be introduced as an empirically-validated rubric to teach direct care staff to engage in compassionate practice with clients diagnosed with autism. Implications for practice and future directions toward objective definitions and measurements of compassionate care will be discussed.

What You'll Learn

1. Identify specific behaviors that comprise compassionate practice for direct care staff.
2. Identify and describe an appropriate training sequence to teach direct care staff to engage in compassionate care practices while working with clients.
3. Describe the chronology of compassionate practices, from early rationale to current efforts toward operationally defining and teaching it to clinicians and direct care staff.

CEU Credits Earned

Certification Body	Credits	Type
BACB®	1.5	Ethics
COA	1.5	—

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