Description
Builds a clinical understanding of the therapeutic relationship as a behavioral process, focusing on how the therapist becomes a conditioned reinforcer and how that relationship is maintained over time. Covers the pairing process, indicators of success, and the distinction between pairing and instruction. Expanded content includes relationship development across stages, repair strategies, and caregiver influence on rapport.
Learners will develop strategies to build, maintain, and repair rapport across the course of treatment.
Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
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Define pairing and explain its behavioral mechanism, how a therapist becomes a conditioned reinforcer
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Describe the pairing process, how to implement it with a new client from session one through established rapport
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Identify the behavioral indicators that pairing has been successful and the relationship is therapeutically functional
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Recognize when pairing has broken down and implement specific re-pairing strategies to restore the therapeutic relationship
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Describe how to maintain rapport throughout the therapeutic relationship, including during demanding sessions
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Explain how to balance reinforcement delivery with instructional demands in ways that protect and sustain the therapeutic relationship
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate PDU 6- Pairing For Success
Learning credits
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