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17th Annual Autism Conference; San Diego; 2023

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Workshop #W2
CE Offered: PSY/BACB/QABA/NASP
Enacting Our Commitment to Compassionate Care, Collaboration, and Cultural Responsiveness: Identifying Skills That Matter and Strategies to Use in Attaining These Goals
Sunday, February 19, 2023
2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Meeting Level 4; Sapphire Plenary
Area: AUT; Domain: Service Delivery
CE Instructor: Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D.
MARY JANE WEISS (Endicott College)
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Associate Dean of Applied Behavior Analysis and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 11 years. She also works with the research and training teams at Melmark. She has worked in the field of ABA and Autism for over 35 years. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University in 1990 and she became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2000. She previously worked for 16 years at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University. Her clinical and research interests center on defining best practice ABA techniques, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into ABA service delivery, exploring ways to enhance the ethical conduct of practitioners, training staff to be optimally effective at instruction and at collaboration, and maximizing family members’ expertise and adaptation. She serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, is on the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, is a regular contributor to the ABA Ethics Hotline, is on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in practice, and is an advisor to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
Description: There has been a call to action within the field of behavior analysis for clinicians to build skills in the areas of compassionate care, collaboration, and cultural responsiveness. Deficits in these skills have been noted by stakeholders and clients, and consensus exists as to the need to improve these clinical skills. These “soft” skills share some characteristics, including difficulty in operationally defining and measuring them. Progress is being made in defining essential elements of these skills, and in identifying the components that comprise the composite skill sets. In this workshop, sample methods for defining and measuring these skills will be reviewed. Empirical studies conducted in these areas will be reviewed. Special attention will be given to the evaluation of ultimate outcomes, including generalization, social validity, and authenticity. Strategies for incorporating training these skills into student education and practitioner training/supervision will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to: 1. Participants will identify the rationale for and benefits derived from ensuring that behavior analytic services are delivered in compassionate, collaborative and culturally responsive ways 2. Participants will identify components of these skill sets that are supported by other disciplines, conceptually systematic, and operationally defined 3. Participants will identify crucial issues in teaching these skills including assessments of social validity, authenticity, and generalization 4. Participants will list ways to incorporate instruction in these skills in coursework/training and supervision contexts
Activities: Lecture and discussion
Audience: Practitioners of ABA
Content Area: Practice
Instruction Level: Intermediate

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