Culturo-Behavior Science Practicum: Analyses and Intervention in Multi-Level Contexts
Tóm tắt
The Association for Behavior Analysis International established a Verified Course Sequence (VCS) for Culturo-Behavior Science (CBS) that covers core concepts, procedures, and methodologies necessary to analyze and intervene in system-level social problems. However, the experiential practicum component lacks defined competency criteria; not surprisingly, the handful of current CBS practica also lack clear markers. We propose that Behavioral Community Psychology (BCP) can provide a framework for developing rationally articulated competencies and designed learning opportunities for students to demonstrate such core competencies. The structure that BCP offers is grounded in its fundamental values—community-researcher collaboration to address important systemic problems, an emphasis on social activism aimed at primary and secondary prevention of social problems, and the development of sustainable, pragmatic, empirically supported and replicable interventions that contribute to fundamental social change. We employ climate change as a practicum focus area to provide an example of how BCP can lead to clarification of important competency criteria used by instructional designers. We discuss how CBS concepts, measures, and procedures can be applied in the planning and evaluation of practicum learning experiences and in the selection of practicum sites to create new opportunities to transfer behavior science to socially significant issues. The intended audiences for this paper are faculty designing CBS experiential learning, students engaging with VCS practica, and personnel in sites hosting learners.
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