Overcoming Treatment Barriers to Family Support Services: What Can We Learn from Third-Wave Behavior
1 CE for BACB or QABA
This course is a prerecorded
Course Summary
Traditional behavior analytic training has a strong focus on the acquisition of foundational knowledge and the ability to implement protocol-driven change procedures. While this approach can create technically proficient clinicians, it can often result in practitioners who struggle to adapt on-the-fly to unpredictable situations deviating from their established training, requiring providers to “make it up as they go along.” This effect can often be seen in parent training services, wherein caregivers sometimes complain about BCBA use of overly technical language and/or making recommendations that are implausible for them to implement due to competing responsibilities or limited resources. Third-wave behavior therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) incorporate a focus on distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness that could provide clinicians with additional skills to better support families who face such challenges, while also increasing their ability to adjust to difficult or unforeseen situations in their clinical practice. This presentation will highlight specific skills from these third-wave therapies, discussing how they can be understood in behavior analytic terms and translated into practice to help promote generalization and provide more effective support to caregivers.
