Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Person-Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis
- 1st Edition - May 12, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Dennis H. Reid, Mary Rosswurm
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 1 5 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 1 6 - 6
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The degree to which adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities experiences desired lifestyles often is heavily dependent on supports and services provided by human service agencies. Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities: Person-Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis describes how desired of individual adults can be accurately identified and supports and services provided in accordance with those desires. Focusing on person-centered applications of behavior analysis, procedures are presented for human service staff to develop good relationships with individuals, provide routine choice opportunities and ensure access to preferences, teach individuals to exert control over their daily lifestyles, overcome challenging behavior in acceptable ways, and treat individuals with dignity. The goal is to ensure individuals achieve lifestyles they personally desire and experience day-to-day happiness.
- Reviews strategies for identifying and promoting individual happiness
- Describes how to make traditionally undesired situations more desirable
- Includes staff training and supervision requirements for promotion desired lifestyles
- Written for agency staff, supervisors, clinicians, and consultants
Behavior analysts (ABA), clinical supervisors, psychologists practicing in Autism
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Section I: Introduction to promoting desired lifestyles
- Chapter 1: Overview of promoting desired lifestyles among adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities
- Abstract
- Purpose of promoting desired lifestyles
- Intended audience
- Organization of chapter contents
- Some content qualifications
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 2: The critical roles of behavior analysis and person-centeredness
- Abstract
- Overview of behavior analysis
- The concept and practices of person-centeredness
- Synthesizing behavior analysis and person-centered practices
- Summary
- Chapter summary: Key points
- References
- Chapter 3: Laying the foundation I: Evidence-based identification of individual desires
- Abstract
- Current reliance on caregiver opinion
- The critical role of systematic preference assessments
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 4: Laying the foundation II: Identifying valid indices of happiness
- Abstract
- Happiness as a private event
- Strategies for identifying indices of happiness
- Monitoring individual happiness
- Special considerations with identifying and monitoring indices of happiness
- Potentially problematic concerns with identifying and monitoring indices of happiness
- A final note: The importance of casually monitoring for happiness
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Section II: Promoting day-to-day happiness
- Chapter 5: Actively promoting good relationships
- Abstract
- The importance of good relationships
- Obstacles to developing good relationships in human service agencies
- Strategies for developing good relationships
- Maintaining good relationships
- Special considerations for promoting good relationships
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 6: Providing choice opportunities
- Abstract
- The multiple benefits of providing choice opportunities
- Individualizing choice opportunities
- Types of choices to provide within choice opportunities
- Special considerations for incorporating frequent choice opportunities within adult service agencies
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 7: Ensuring access to preferences
- Abstract
- The relationship between choice opportunities and accessing preferences
- Issues and strategies for ensuring individual access to preferences
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 8: Making undesirable situations more desirable
- Abstract
- Identifying undesirable situations
- Strategies for making undesirable situations more desirable
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Section III: Special considerations in promoting desired lifestyles
- Chapter 9: The qualified role of teaching
- Abstract
- Controversy over the role of teaching within adult service agencies
- The focus of teaching for promoting desired lifestyles: What to teach adults with severe disabilities
- How to teach adults with severe disabilities: Evidence-based strategies
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 10: Person-centeredness, behavior analysis, and treating challenging behavior
- Abstract
- Preventing challenging behavior by promoting enjoyment
- Treating challenging behavior by teaching specific skills
- Time-focused, priority treatment of challenging behavior
- Increasing staffing to treat challenging behavior: Benefits and potential detriments
- Considerations associated with stereotypy as challenging behavior
- The qualified role of punishment
- A final note: Behavioral resource requirements
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 11: Training, supervising, and motivating front-line staff
- Abstract
- Evidence-based staff training
- Supervising staff performance
- Motivating front-line staff in adult service agencies
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Chapter 12: Treating with dignity
- Abstract
- Speaking in ways to reflect dignity
- Acting in ways to reflect dignity
- Special considerations for treating with dignity
- A final note: The golden rule
- Chapter summary: Key points
- Selected readings
- Descriptions of behavior analysis
- Developing relationships
- Happiness
- Making undesirable situations more desirable
- Person-centered planning
- Positive behavior support
- Providing choice opportunities
- Systematic preference assessments
- Teaching
- Training, supervising, and motivating staff performance
- Treating challenging behavior
- Treating with dignity
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 12, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 322
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443134159
- eBook ISBN: 9780443134166
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Dennis H. Reid
Dennis H. Reid is the founder and director of the Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center. His company has more than 25 years of experience providing assisted employment to persons with severe disabilities. Dr. Dennis Reid has more than 45 years of experience working with individuals with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, in educational, residential, vocational, and community support settings. He has provided advice to human services organizations in most US states, as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He has written or co-written 15 books and more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on applied behavior analysis. He earned the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities International Research Award in 2006 and Fellowship membership in the Association for Behavior Analysis International in 2007.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder and Director, Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center, USAMR
Mary Rosswurm
Mary Rosswurm is the mother of an adult son with autism and Chief Executive Officer of LittleStar ABA Therapy. She has 18 years of professional experience working with individuals with autism. She has held various leadership positions in the field of disabilities, including those with the Council of Autism Service Providers and the Association of Science in Autism Treatment. She has also held leadership positions on the Indiana Commission on Autism and the Indiana Providers of Effective Autism Treatment, both of which she founded. She has numerous professional articles, such as in Behavior Analysis in Practice and The Behavior Analyst Today, and she co-authored The Training Curriculum for Supervisors of ABA Technicians. Mary has made many presentations at professional conferences such as the Autism Speaks Law Summit and Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. She is currently completing her doctoral work in Leadership and Organizational Development at Benedictine University.
Affiliations and expertise
LittleStar ABA Therapy, Inc., Zionsville, IN, USARead Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities on ScienceDirect