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| Behavior Consultation in Inpatient Tertiary Pediatric Hospitals |
| Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
| 4:00 PM–4:50 PM |
| Convention Center, Street Level, 140 B |
| Area: CBM/DDA; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Alec M Bernstein, Ph.D. |
| Chair: Alec M Bernstein (Children's Mercy Hospital; University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine) |
| VIRGINIA KAUFMANN (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) |
| AMANDA P. LAPRIME (University of Rochester Medical Center) |
| OLIVIA MILLER (Children’s National Hospital; Simmons University) |
| Abstract: Tertiary pediatric hospitals specialize in high-quality medical care. Challenging behavior (e.g., physical aggression, self-injury, elopement, and medical noncompliance) complicates equitable access to this care and compromises workplace safety. The Joint Commission and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, however, have standards regarding equitable care and workplace safety tertiary pediatric hospitals must meet. Behavior analysts provide one of the best options for creating safe, effective, and sustainable systems to meet these standards. Still, embedding behavior analysts in healthcare settings remains relatively novel despite recent calls for including behavior analysts in interprofessional medical teams and vast evidence supporting behavior-analytic procedures for decreasing children’s challenging behavior and increasing staff safety skills. The invited panelists will share their experiences formalizing and overseeing behavior-analytic consultative services in tertiary pediatric hospitals. The discussion generally will entail navigating the pediatric healthcare system, roles and responsibilities of hospital-based behavior analysts, staff training and supervision, outcomes of behavior consultation, and expectations community-based providers can have for hospital-based behavior analysts. |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| Target Audience: Intermediate. Necessary requisite skills and competencies for attendees to gain the most from the panel discussion included (a) near-completion or completion of graduate-level work focusing on applied behavior analysis; (b) licensure and credentials as someone able to legally and ethically provide behavior-analytic services; and (c) experience with interprofessional collaboration with healthcare professionals or experience with healthcare settings. |
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify common barriers to providing behavior-analytic care.
2. Identify strategies to promote successful outcomes (e.g., decreased challenging behavior and increased staff safety skills).
3. Identify expectations of hospital-based behavior analysts. |
| Keyword(s): behavioral pediatrics, consultation, healthcare, hospital |
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