Burning the Candle At Both Ends

Overview

What you will study

Autism is a pervasive disorder that impacts 1 out of 59 children in the United States (Center for Disease Control, 2018). Given the rising need for intervention, service delivery providers are faced with many challenges to support children and families. Direct care staff are required to deliver evidence-based interventions and daily instruction that may lead to emotional and physical burn-out. Agencies and schools are faced with delivering high-quality staff training and support systems to ensure direct care staff are provided with the necessary tools and motivation to maintain staff satisfaction and reduce high rates of staff turnover.

This Burning the Candle At Both Ends course offered by University of New Brunswick will review evidence-based practices for supporting staff through many stressors. The topics discussed will be primarily based in behavior analysis.