Join this networking hour to discuss the following topics and others related to social activism:
- How can behavior analysts be activists who use their professional skills in service of progressive goals through strategies such as advocacy and accompaniment?
- How can behavior analysts advocate for progressive goals in the course of their jobs (e.g., university instructor, clinician, administrator, etc.)?
- ABAI does not have its own ethics code; instead it relies on members to adhere to their “home discipline’s” ethics code. An ABAI ethics code that reflected environmental determinism would establish social activism as an ethical mandate because it would be arbitrary to limit a functional analysis to the individual level and ignore the higher-level systemic determinants of behavioral and social problems. This continuity of determinism implies that clients’ overall behavioral health requires activism to change harmful metacontingencies. NASW’s ethics code can serve as a model.
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