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| Behavioral Counseling: Assessment and Intervention Techniques |
| Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| North 222 C |
| Area: CBM/CSE; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Jamie, Ed.D. |
| JOSEPH D. CAUTILLI (Behavior Analysis and Therapy Partners), MICHAEL WEINBERG (Orlando Behavior Health Services, LLC) |
| Description: This workshop will provide participants an opportunity to learn essential clinical skills necessary for individual behavior counseling assessment and intervention treatment approaches. Basics will be reviewed including identifying client behavior, teaching clients to collect data, goal-setting, functional assessment interviews, use of FA data to determine effective treatment, contingency managmenet, self-management, covert sensitization, systematic desentization and others. Participants will engage in small group activities to practice use of behavioral counseling methods for use in individual therapy sessions using behavioral methods and approaches. |
| Learning Objectives: By the end of this workshop, participants will learn to:
1) State the difference between "behavioral counseling" and other behavioral approaches
2) What types of behavioral problems are best suited to behavioral counseling approaches
3) Identify at least three behavioral counseling intervention methods
4) Define "behavioral counseling microskills."
5) State how is functional assessment integrated into microskills
6) Describe how to use functional assessment in therapy sessions
7) Explain how clients are taught and encouraged to take and report data on behaviors
8) Describe effective implementation of techniques such as self-management, systematic desensitization, and other behavior management approaches in behavior counseling sessions (as time permits) |
| Activities: Group break-out activities to practice the various techniques (as time permits)
1) Identifying behaviors
2) Goal-setting in sessions
3) shaping client to shift from "feelings" to behavior
4) encouraging data collection and use of self-report and data
monitoring
5) use of "microskills"
6) interviews for functional assessment
7) incorporating FA results into intervention
8) Altering consequences of client behavior
9) Use of reinforcement; being solution-focused
Others (time permitting)
10) self-management techniques
11) systematic desensitization vs. flooding
12) Covert sensitization |
| Audience: behavioral practitioners, behavior therapists, outpatient counselors and therapists, applied behavior analysts |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |