Revised Upcoming Webinar!

Dr. Thomas Szabo & Vanessa Bethea-Miller, BCBA, Presents

ACT, ABA, and Transformation of Stimulus Function: How Verbal Behavior Can Promote Meaningful Change in Systemic Racism.
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When: July 8th, 2020 7:00-9:00pm ATL
Description:  Vanessa Bethea-Miller and Tom Szabo will explore ABA,  ACT and the ways that verbal rules can function both to generate effective action and to produce deep fear, the kind that limits and even ceases values-based action.

​Learning Objectives: ​

​Participants will:
  • Relate Skinner’s analysis of controlling and controlled groups to racial injustice and police brutality
  • Describe racial disparities that affect BIPOC in the areas of police brutality and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system
  • Analyze police brutality and racial injustice through a RFT lens
  • Compare current and past verbal augmentals that have transformed into sustainable social justice movements
  • Develop new verbal augmentals for generating effective action in the realms of social justice activism




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