Heather Gilmore
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Wheeler Township, MI, United States
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Support Self-Care Power in Adolescents
The life stage of adolescence is quite complex. Adolescents go through many changes. The experiences an adolescent has during their teen years can influence their adulthood for better or for worse. → Read More
Your Well-Being as a Treatment Provider Affects Your Client's Outcomes
Making a Difference Want to make a difference in the world? For your clients? The research on what makes some treatment services effective and what makes some → Read More
ABA Parent Training Goals: 10 Effective Skills to Incorporate into ABA Parent Training
Clarifying ABA Parent Training Goals ABA parent training is complex. There is an endless amount of goals that could be worked on within the context of ABA → Read More
Communication Skills: ABA Providers Need to Work on Communication Skills, Too (Not Just Clients)
Communication Skills of the Service Provider Communication skills are often taught within the field of applied behavior analysis particularly when working with → Read More
Treatment Planning: Goal Setting within an ABA Parent Training Treatment Plan
Treatment Planning Treatment planning is an important part of any clinical service. Treatment planning helps both the service provider and the client. Focus on Goals In the context of ABA parent → Read More
ABA Parent Training Assessment: Using a Combination of Assessment Tools
Assessment in ABA When working with parents in applied behavior analysis, it is important to complete a thorough assessment. Although assessment can be complex no matter what population you are → Read More
Parent Coaching: Using a Coaching Approach in ABA Parent Training
Parent Involvement is Key Teaching parents is repeatedly recommended throughout the academic and scientific literature when it comes to helping children manage behaviors and learn new skills. Use of a → Read More
Motivational Interviewing: A Valuable Tool for Creating Change with ABA Clients
Motivational Interviewing Motivational interviewing is a strategy that can be helpful in applied behavior analysis services. Connection with ABA One of the main goals of ABA is to get someone to make → Read More
Attachment Theory: Parent-Child Attachment Affects Relationship Skills Throughout Life
Parent-Child Attachment Parent-child attachment is a concept that greatly influences a child's interactions with others throughout their lifetime. A child → Read More
Attachment Theory: Parent-Child Attachment Affects Relationship Skills Throughout Life
Bowlby explored the behaviors that an infant displayed in relation to their parent, such as screaming, clinging, or crying. He believed these behaviors were reinforced through natural selection with the purpose of helping the infant to survive. It was thought that without these types of behaviors some infants could be left alone too long potentially putting them at risk of danger. Attachment… → Read More
Safe Infant Sleep Practices: Using BST to Teach Parents Safe Sleep Arrangements for Infants
Safe Sleep Practices for Infants The principles of applied behavior analysis can be used to teach parents to create a safe sleeping environment for their → Read More
BRIEF REVIEW: Effectiveness of Technology-Based Antecedent Training Report
Technology-Based Antecedent Training A review was completed to explore research on technology-based antecedent training procedures. The authors provide an overview of recent research on the topic of → Read More
Parenting Styles: Brief Overview of Different Approaches to Parenting
4 Parenting Styles One theory of parenting states that there are four different approaches to parenting. These include authoritarian parenting, authoritative parenting, and permissive parenting. → Read More
Dimensions of Parenting: Parenting Approaches for Positive or Negative Outcomes in Children
Dimensions of Parenting Parents play a vital role in the development and functioning of their children. The behaviors of a parent can influence the behaviors of → Read More
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy): 6 Core Processes and Their Relevance for Parents
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy): 6 Core Processes and Their Relevance for Parents The ACT Hexaflex can be a helpful tool to use in applied behavior → Read More
Cultural Competence: A Necessary Training for Human Service Professionals
Cultural Competence Training Cultural competence is an extremely important aspect of the work that any human service professional does. This includes for those → Read More
Self-Care: Introduction to Dimensions of Wellness and Setting Self Care Goals
What is Self-Care? Self-care is "defined as a cadre of activities performed independently by an individual to promote and maintain personal well-being → Read More
Compassion Fatigue: What is Compassion Fatigue and How to Deal with Emotionally Draining Work
What is Compassion Fatigue? Compassion fatigue is a potential experience for professionals who work in a human service related role. Compassion fatigue is more common in professions which focus on → Read More
Defining Burnout: What is Burnout for ABA Providers?
"One of the most common psychological symptoms modern people increasingly experience is burnout, i.e., the outcome of chronic work-related stress (Melamed et al → Read More
ABA Parent Training Research: 3 Studies to Help Support Parents
Applied behavior analysis is a science that can address a variety of issues, populations, diagnoses, and can even be applied to everyday life for the average → Read More