ABACLive Webinar with Dr. Mary Jane Weiss

Presented through the ABACLive Cambridge Center Series. Helping those who help others, one live webinar at a time.

CCBS Trustee Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA presents “Compassionate Care in Behavior Analytic Work: Progress in Defining, Measuring, Teaching, and Training this Skillset”

Thursday, April 24, 2025
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Eastern/NY)
Recordings available until 05/09/25

This event is FREE for the general public. Or available for a discounted price with:

This Program is Approved for the Following CE Credit Types:

• 0.2 IACET CEUs
• 2.0 BACB CEUs: Learning
• 2.0 QABA CEUs
• 2.0 Credit Hours for Psychologists* (Intermediate)
• 2.0 IBAO CEUs: General
• CEUs available for watching live or viewing the recording. See brochure for more information about our continuing education requirements.

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Abstract

Compassionate care has received a great deal of attention within the field of behavior analysis since the publication of the Taylor et al. (2019) call to action; there is a great deal of consensus about the need to incorporate more training in interpersonal skills to ensure that our clients and stakeholders feel maximally respected and supported. Progress has been made in recent years in several areas that are relevant to this goal; clarity in definitional elements of compassionate care has improved and component skills have been posited. In addition, qualitative research has broadened our understanding of the skill set, tools to measure the demonstration of component skills have been developed, and pilot studies have used evidence-based interventions to teach this clinical repertoire. In this presentation, research in these areas will be highlighted. Additionally, clinical issues such as social validity, generality, and authenticity will be discussed, as well as priorities for future research.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Learners will identify definitional elements of compassionate care and component skills associated with practice.
• Learners will identify tools to assess components of compassionate care in behavior analytic practice contexts.
• Learners will identify interventions that have been used to train behavior analysts to engage in behaviors associated with compassionate care.
• Learners will identify research priorities, including the assessment of generalization and authenticity in the demonstration of compassionate care.

Presenter Bio:

Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Dean of Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 14 years. She previously served as Director of Research and Training at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University for 16 years. Her research interests center on defining best practice and humane ABA approaches, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into behavior analytic service delivery, enhancing the ethical conduct of practitioners, training clinicians to be effective at collaboration, and identifying effective instructional strategies for graduate education in behavior analysis. Mary Jane is also a long-standing member of the research team at Melmark. Mary Jane serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, is Vice President of the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, is on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in Practice, is on the ABA Ethics Hotline, and serves as a Trustee of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

*This event is FREE for the general public. For those that want a certificate of completion for continuing education credits please purchase the discounted CEs. Register on ABAC Website – FREE (NO CEs)

This event is being offered at the discounted ABACLive Cambridge Center Series price for CEUs (Learning). Behavior Analysts may earn continuing education for viewing the live event or recording. Behavior Analysts: 2 CEUs (Learning) Register on ABAC Website to Earn Continuing Education

The ABACLive Cambridge Center Series of webinars are presented by Board of Directors, Trustees, Advisors, Senior Fellows of the prestigious Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

The ABACLive Cambridge Center Series is the result of a collaboration between The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (CCBS) and The Applied Behavior Analysis Center, Inc (ABAC) designed to make behavioral health education accessible to the global community of professionals working to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

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