Longish-time listeners will recall that we spent some time talking about Clinical Behavior Analysis' approach to embedding parent training in their ABA services. In Session 36, we spent some time with Brandon Franklin discussing CBA's RAPID Skills Training (RST) protocol in great detail.
So in Sesison 57, we return to our friends at CBA to do a deeper dive into RST. Jason Simmons, the President and Executive Director of CBA, joins me to talk about how RST was initially developed, and how their organization has used it across a wide variety of applications (and you can find more background information on RST here).
We also spend some time discussing the history of CBA, as well as the semi-recent history of ABA services in Kentucky. Along the way, Jason shares how he fell in love with the Louisville, Kentucky (and disabuses some potential stereotypes to boot!).
As I have noted in previous episodes, CBA is opening a 13,000 square foot facility, and they are looking for a clinical director that shares their vision of providing quality services. For more information, check out their careers page here.
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Awesome podcast and great inspiring work!
Thanks Dr. Leadley!!!
Thanks Matt & Sarah, caretaker non-adherence is a critical problem. So much so, some are at a loss on how to talk about or address it… i.e., if the caretakers are not prepared to following through and continue vital components of the program it is suggested in some research (JABA 2000, The Problem of Parental Non-Adherence) that providing that approach may be considered problematic or even unethical. It is possible that, even after a clinician has reduced an intervention into the smallest manageable steps, the task is still too complex for a particular caretaker. One solution may be to ‘‘repackage’’ the language of behavioral technology to be less discriminable from the language of contemporary culture (Bailey, 1991). Research suggests that if caretaker intervention is prescribed under conditions of impairment, it is ethically inappropriate and irresponsible to not prepare them first… Some data suggest that a very high percentage of families taking care of a loved one with a serious condition experience (at least initially) some form of extreme stress and possible other impairments… Additionally, for in-home or community programs, research also suggest that the results of behavior programs are reliant on adherence and yet, consensus on an operational definition of “what is adherence” seems illusive…
The complexity of an intervention (or lack of) has been described as one of the most consistent predictors of adherence (Meichenbaum & Turk, 1987), and it is undoubtedly a relevant variable in teaching parents intervention strategies for managing common behavior problems in children.
Thanks for listening!