Recorded: Assent in Action: A Practical Skills-Based, Assent-Based Approach to Structured Learning

** This course will provide the participant with 3 Ethics Learning Type BACB® CEU**

Description of Learning Type CE Event: This course bridges the gap between contemporary assent-based literature and daily clinical practice for behavior analysts. While research highlights a severe scarcity of practical, assent-based protocols and procedures (Morris et al., 2021), this training will teach attendees how to convert peer-reviewed assent-based treatment criteria into structured interventions through a detailed demonstration including direct video models with a real client. This will include learning a process of implementing attending and assent response training in the context of demand fading. Participants will be provided protocols for the demonstrated intervention and an empirical assessment to identify possible stimulus aversiveness in social eye gaze.

About the Instructor: Parker is a BCBA with a clinical background teaching skills and addressing challenging behavior across the spectrum of severity in both home and clinic-based settings. In the clinic setting, he most recently served as the Director of Clinical Training for a multidisciplinary practice providing ABA, ST, and OT.
Currently, he is the founder of Ellison ACT Group, a private practice specializing in clinical behavior analysis utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). His practice focuses primarily on supporting neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ adults through individual sessions, providing values-driven parent guidance for autistic children, and implementing a specialized "medication runway" program that collaborates with psychiatrists to help individuals collect and self-manage data during psychotropic medication transitions.
Passionate about Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and the ACT account of private events, Parker has completed advanced training from industry pioneers including Steven Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, Mark Dixon, DJ Moran, and Russ Harris. He also leads an interdisciplinary ACT book club in Atlanta for upcoming practitioners across multiple therapeutic fields to learn about ACT.
Known by colleagues as the "Teacher BCBA," he enjoys translating theory into structured, accessible tools. He has authored comprehensive company-wide RBT training programs, an original 97156-friendly Family Guidance Curriculum, and clinical ACT guides aimed at translating adult practice into working with children using ACT. His approach to assent-based care is rooted in the practical philosophy that reinforcing active, willing choice is fundamentally more effective and values-driven than coercion.

Target Audience:

• BCBAs looking for training on designing assent-based interventions and incorporating assent-based interventions into practice.
• BCBAs searching for training on designing demand fading interventions with assent as a priority.

Learning Objectives for Participants:

• Design a flexible, client-paced, assent-based approach to demand fading.
• Design a flexible assessment procedure to evaluate the appropriateness of using eye contact before selecting it as an assent response.
• Incorporate assent and assent withdrawal measurement into practice.
• Design clinical interventions by translating empirical criteria from assent-based literature into practice.

To earn credit, you will be required to watch all video lessons and pass a quiz with a score of 80% or higher. You can retake the quiz as many times as needed, but you may not receive exactly the same questions each time.