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| Part 1: Writing and Reviewing an Ethical Intensive Behavior Program |
| Friday, May 24, 2019 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| Swissôtel, Lucerne Ballroom Level, Lucerne 2 |
| Area: CBM/TBA; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Karen R. Wagner, Ph.D. |
| KAREN R. WAGNER (Behavior Services of Brevard, Inc and TheBehaviorAnalyst.com), BETHANY DOWDING (Behavior Services of Brevard) |
| Description: This workshop is intended to advance skills relating to writing and reviewing Individual Behavior Plans for recipients with challenging behavior. Starting with provider self-evaluation regarding accepting a recipient, moving through authoring plans, and then reviewing those written by others, this is an active-participant workshop. Among topics to be covered; The "rules" in various areas for addressing dangerous and challenging behaviors, researching relevant legislation and policy obligations, determining agency policy for the use of restraint and/or restrictive procedures, and reviewing journals for efficacious interventions, will be covered. We will also review the ethical obligations of providing services to these difficult recipients, including the need for crisis management training when restraint "isn't used" in regular programming. Evaluating, training and supervising staff will be reviewed at length. Additionally, we will review obligations to the recipient, the family, the agency, and families who private pay. A peer-review system will be presented and evaluated by participants, as well as the need for experienced clinicians to have mentors of their own. Using a format for "old school" (non-computer generated) IBPs, and case studies, we will examine recommended components, organization, wordsmithing, effective data collection, and the importance of explicit, detailed, instructions. Attendance of Part 1 of this workshop includes 3 BACB supervision CE credits. |
| Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to identify behaviors that meet criterion for dangerous and challenging, intensive behaviors. Participants will be able to systematically format IBPs to allow consistency for all implementers, without software. Participants will be able to differentiate legal and ethical requirements when addressing intensive behaviors. Participants will be able to efficiently and effectively review IBPs for individuals with dangerous and challenging behavior. Participants will be able to give appropriate feedback to clinicians who are incorrectly authoring IBPs for intensive behaviors. |
| Activities: Workshop activities will include; lecture, participant self-evaluation, identification of policies and rules regarding restrictive procedures in various (participant) areas, using sample programs and videos to review, evaluate, and revise interventions. |
| Audience: This workshop is intended to inform experienced clinicians who are struggling with service provision for recipients with dangerous and challenging behavior, those BCBAs who are looking to refresh/expand their own behavioral repertoires, and those who find themselves supervising pre-certificants and established staff who are writing behavior plans for this challenging population. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Advanced |
| Keyword(s): agency policy, Crisis Management, Ethics, Supervision |