Trauma-Informed Care, Assent, and Compassion - A Call for Nuance in ABA

Send us a text In his book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Skinner (1971) reminds us that “culture is the social environment that shapes and maintains the behavior of those who live in it. A given culture evolves as new practices arise, possibly for irrelevant reasons, and are selected by their contribution to the strength of the culture as it “competes” with the physical environment and with other cultures.” Now, we (Steve Ward and I) mention the term culture because there are words in our cult...