S3E9: Soft Skills: The Case for Compassionate Approaches or How Behavior Analysis Keeps Finding Its Heart with Jessica Rohrer

Jessica Rohrer joins us to talk about her paper, Soft Skills: The Case for Compassionate Approaches or How Behavior Analysis Keeps Finding Its Heart.

Show Notes

• Remember to join us on Facebook to suggest articles to review and questions for authors.
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• Acknowledgments
  • Host and Executive Producer: Cody Morris, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA
    • https://salve.edu/users/dr-cody-morris
  • Assistant Producers
    • Elizabeth Narvaez
    • Jesse Perrin
  • Production Assistants for this Episode
    • Jacob Oliveira
    • Biancé Ferrucci
  • Organizational Support
    • ABAI
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    • Behavior Analysis in Practice
      • Editor, Stephanie Peterson, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA
      • https://www.abainternational.org/journals/bap.aspx
    • Music
      • Cruising Altitude by Jim Carr and his band New Latitude
        • http://www.newlatitudemusic.com
      • Link to Article
        • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40617-021-00563-x

References

Baer, D. M., Wolf, M. M., & Risley, T. R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1(1), 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1968.1-91

Callahan, K., Foxx, R. M., Swierczynski, A., Aerts, X., Mehta, S., McComb, M. E., Nichols, S. M., Segal, G., Donald, A., & Sharma, R. (2019). Behavioral artistry: Examining the relationship between the interpersonal skills and effective practice repertoires of applied behavior analysis practitioners. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(9), 3557–3570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04082-1

Canon, L.F. & Gould, E.R. (2021). A preliminary analysis of the effects of clicker training and verbal instructions on the acquisition of relationship-building skills in two applied behavior analysis practitioners. Behavior Analysis in Practice. DOI: 10.1007/s40617-021-00555-x

Leaf J.B., Leaf R., McEachin J., Taubman M., Ala'i-Rosales S., Ross R.K., Smith T., & Weiss M.J.. Applied behavior analysis is a science and, therefore, progressive. J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Feb;46(2):720-31. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2591-6. PMID: 26373767.

Taylor, B. A., LeBlanc, L. A., & Nosik, M. R. (2018). Compassionate care in behavior analytic treatment: Can outcomes be enhanced by attending to relationships with caregivers?. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(3), 654–666. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-018-00289-3

Wolf M. M. (1978). Social validity: The case for subjective measurement or how applied behavior analysis is finding its heart. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis;11(2):203–214. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1978.11-203.