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| The Power of Rapport: Strengthening Connections Across Clients, Families, Teams, and Leadership |
| Friday, May 23, 2025 |
| 12:00 PM–3:00 PM |
| Marriott Marquis, M2 Level, Marquis Salon 16 |
| Area: AUT; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Molly Ann McGinnis, M.Ed. |
| MOLLY ANN MCGINNIS (Butterfly Effects), VICTORIA KARLSEN (Butterfly Effects) |
| Description: Our clinical rapport-building goals have been extended to siblings, parents, respite care workers, and neighbors to promote and enhance social relationships for our clients, while also facilitating generalization. Building on the work of Lugo et al. (2017), we developed a formalized rapport-building curriculum that incorporates the 7 pre-session pairing skills, data collection, and teaching procedures outlined in their research. This curriculum not only guides pre-session pairing but also emphasizes maintaining rapport throughout sessions, ensuring a continuous therapeutic relationship between clients and clinicians (Denegri, 2023). The curriculum provides clear, actionable steps for BCBAs and technicians to enhance their interpersonal skills with clients. Additionally, this workshop addresses how providers can integrate compassionate care within a medical model of treatment, promoting self-advocacy and independence for families (Mathur, 2024). Finally, developing positive rapport is not only essential in direct service provision but also in building strong professional relationships, effective leadership, and feedback within the workplace. This workshop aims to improve participants' rapport-building repertoire, both in client interactions and throughout their professional careers in applied behavior analysis. |
| Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the Principles of Rapport-Building Participants will identify and understand the key elements of rapport-building, including the 7 pre-session pairing skills, as outlined in the curriculum developed from Lugo et al. (2017). 2. Enhance Interpersonal Skills for Clinicians Participants will gain practical guidance on how BCBAs and technicians can develop their interpersonal skills through structured rapport-building techniques in both pre-session and ongoing client interactions. 3. Integrate Compassionate Care into Clinical Practice Participants will explore ways to incorporate compassionate care into a medical model of treatment, as described by Denegri (2023), while promoting self-advocacy and independence for families. 4. Develop Skills for Lifelong Professional Growth Participants will strengthen their rapport-building repertoire to enhance their professional effectiveness across various roles and interactions within the field of applied behavior analysis. |
| Activities: Workshop activities will include lecture, discussion, small group breakouts, role plays, and guided practice. Additional resources and reading materials will be given at the completion of the workshop for future learning. |
| Audience: Beginner and above. The target audience begins with new BCBAs or technicians to the field that are looking to improve their interpersonal skills with families, clients, and colleagues. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Keyword(s): compassionate care, leadership, Rapport, Training |
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