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**Association of American Publishers (AAP) PROSE Award Winner in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, 2024**
The degree to which adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities experiences desired lifestyles often is heavily dependent on supports and services provided by human service agencies.
Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities: Person-Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis describes how desired of individual adults can be accurately identified and supports and services provided in accordance with those desires. Focusing on person-centered applications of behavior analysis, procedures are presented for human service staff to develop good relationships with individuals, provide routine choice opportunities and ensure access to preferences, teach individuals to exert control over their daily lifestyles, overcome challenging behavior in acceptable ways, and treat individuals with dignity. The goal is to ensure individuals achieve lifestyles they personally desire and experience day-to-day happiness.
List of contents
Section I: Introduction To Promoting Desired Lifestyles 1. Overview of Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults with Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
2. The Critical Roles of Behavior Analysis and Person-Centeredness
3. Laying the Foundation I: Evidence-Based Identification of Individual Desires
4. Laying the Foundation II: Identifying Valid Indices of Happiness
Section II: Promoting Day-to-Day Happiness5. Actively Promoting Good Relationships
6. Providing Choice Opportunities
7. Ensuring Access to Preferences
8. Making Undesirable Situations More Desirable
Section III: Special Considerations in Promoting Desired Lifestyles9. The Qualified Role of Teaching
10. Person-Centeredness, Behavior Analysis, and Treating Challenging Behavior
11. Training, Supervising, and Motivating Front-Line Staff
12. Treating with Dignity
Section IV: Selected Readings
About the author
Dennis H. Reid is the founder and director of the Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center. His company has more than 25 years of experience providing assisted employment to persons with severe disabilities. Dr. Dennis Reid has more than 45 years of experience working with individuals with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, in educational, residential, vocational, and community support settings. He has provided advice to human services organizations in most US states, as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He has written or co-written 15 books and more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on applied behavior analysis. He earned the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities International Research Award in 2006 and Fellowship membership in the Association for Behavior Analysis International in 2007.Mary Rosswurm is the mother of an adult son with autism and Chief Executive Officer of LittleStar ABA Therapy. She has 18 years of professional experience working with individuals with autism. She has held various leadership positions in the field of disabilities, including those with the Council of Autism Service Providers and the Association of Science in Autism Treatment. She has also held leadership positions on the Indiana Commission on Autism and the Indiana Providers of Effective Autism Treatment, both of which she founded. She has numerous professional articles, such as in Behavior Analysis in Practice and The Behavior Analyst Today, and she co-authored The Training Curriculum for Supervisors of ABA Technicians. Mary has made many presentations at professional conferences such as the Autism Speaks Law Summit and Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. She is currently completing her doctoral work in Leadership and Organizational Development at Benedictine University.
