So you’ve set a boundary… Now what? (Boundaries Part 2)

Description

“So you’ve set a boundary… Now what?” offers 2.5 general learning CEUs. Participants will learn how to identify the steps to set a boundary and take data on the acceptance of a boundary. Participants will also learn to contrive opportunities to practice boundaries and determine when to use Plan B. The instructor for this course is Hillary Laney. The co-instructors for this course are Penny Holloway, Emily Kearney, and AnnaMarie Stoudenmire.

Click here to see Boundaries Part 1

About Your Presenters…

Hillary Laney, BCBA, is passionate about providing services to clients with significant behavioral needs which prioritizes dignity, safety, rapport, and assent. She received her M. Ed from the University of Washington and has extensive experience as a practitioner and in supporting practitioners, agencies, and schools to provide more comprehensive services to those who need them most. Hillary currently serves as the Vice President of Functional Assessment and Treatment at Centria Autism. She is responsible for staff development and training oversight across the agency in the implementation of assent-based interventions including; Universal Protocols, Practical Functional Assessment, and Skill-Based Treatment. In the past year, Hillary has overseen the training of over 300 supervising clinicians and her team has supported over 300 successful Practical Functional Assessments. In her free time, she volunteers moderating the PFA & SBT Community, an online group of over 20,000 members, which provides free content for members to learn and grow in assent-based practice.  

Penny Holloway, MA, BCBA is a PFA/SBT Trainer at Behavior Interventions Inc, a company dedicated to serving families, supporting fellow team members, and collaborating with organizations that work with the families. Penny has worked in the autism field for 12 years, has owned a private school in the Netherlands for autistic individuals aged 7-18. Penny has been practicing Applied Behavior Analysis since 2017, earned her MA in Applied Behavior Analysis at Rider University and graduated in 2020 and also passed her board exam in 2020. She has worked in homes for 6 years and is passionate about providing compassionate, effective, socially valid treatment while empowering clients and their families. The main focus of Penny’s work is disseminating safe, compassionate, dignified, trauma assumed, assent based, effective treatment in which rapport, bringing joy and building skills are key elements in treating target behavior.

Emily Kearney, BCBA, LBA has been using the Sleep Assessment and Treatment Tool since 2015 and has engaged in a variety of self-study on the topic of behavioral treatment of sleep. She provides coaching and mentorship to newer practitioners and has implemented the SATT with a number of families, focusing on using the structured assessment to gather additional information needed to provide families with a comprehensive plan that is manageable and meets their family culture.

AnnaMarie Stoudenmire, MA, BCBA has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2016, and lives in upstate South Caroline working with teens and young adults with autism. She has been implementing SBT since 2020 with older learners and learners with more advanced language skills.

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the steps to setting a boundary
2. Identify ways to measure acceptance of boundaries
3. Identify ways to support your learner through boundaries
4. Identify ways to teach the skills needed to lower the need for boundaries.
5. Determine when to use a Plan B strategy and select the appropriate version for your learner profile
6. Identify opportunities to contrive practice using Plan B when a boundary is presented
7. Analyze when to work on boundary acceptance and when to work on emotional regulation following a boundary
8. Generate ideas for how parents can provide more rules to assist with stimulus control and clarification of boundary

The PFA & SBT Community is an Authorized Continuing Education Provider from the BACB® and IBAO®. Our provider BACB® ID is OP-23-10256. For concerns regarding CEUs, you can contact us here.

Accessibility info: This course is closed captioned in English and provides a transcript for all video content. For any other accessibility concerns or questions, you can contact us here.

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