Dive into Ethical Motivation: Empowering, Not Controlling—a 1-hour CEU that explores how to align motivation strategies with dignity, autonomy, and social validity. Learn practical tools to avoid coercion and build meaningful, client-centered behavior change.
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Our upcoming courses will guide you through a comprehensive journey—from foundational understanding of motivation in neurodiverse populations to advanced strategies for sustainable change. We provide you with practical tools to empower you to create meaningful, dignity-centered interventions that truly resonate.
This is a critical examination of motivational strategies used in best practice. Promotes autonomy, assent, consent, and avoids coercion or overuse of extrinsic reinforcement.
Before any motivational system can be effective, physiological and sensory needs must be addressed. This is especially relevant in autism where feeding, sleep, GI, and sensory challenges are common and can masquerade as "amotivation."
Introduces foundational behavioral and cognitive definitions of reinforcement and reward. This allows clinicians to start questioning traditional reinforcement paradigms.
Many autistic learners show "noncompliance" or disengagement. This session introduces behavior momentum, shaping, and values-based strategies for re-engagement.
Bridges trauma-informed care and self-determination by addressing compliance culture, family/cultural values, and what meaningful progress looks like to the learner.
Once motivation is sparked, habits keep it going. This session addresses long-term behavioral sustainability.
Sets the tone for affirming, individualized approaches. Covers sensory sensitivities, differences in reinforcement, attention, and cognitive processing styles common in autism and ADHD.
Emotional regulation and recognition are often delayed or expressed differently in autistic individuals. Motivation can't be separated from the learner's emotional readiness and comfort.
Builds on intrinsic motivation. This introduces autonomy, competence, and relatedness, essential for designing long-term, dignity-centered programs for autistic individuals.
Trauma (e.g., restraint, exclusion, masking pressure) can deeply affect motivation. This builds awareness of how to approach learning with compassion and safety in mind.
Adds a cognitive-behavioral lens to behaviorism, helping learners understand persistence, response to feedback, and framing effort as reinforcing.
BCBAs need to model the same motivational principles with their teams. OBM strategies increase implementation fidelity and morale.
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