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Seminar: Using Prosocial to Support Mental Health Services and Special Education: An Evolving Technology with Jordan Belisle & Dana Paliliunas
Mental health service providers and special educators are essential to the well-being of society, supporting vulnerable community members who are disproportionately impacted by economic and social inequality. At the same time, employees in these roles experience elevated rates of burnout and low levels of job satisfaction that can lead to workplace attrition and impact quality of life.
Prosocial is an approach to intervention that integrates elements of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACTr), Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning core design principles governing effective communities, and multilevel selection within the evolutionary sciences. We adapted this broad approach to develop specific intervention technologies for use in mental health and special education settings across multiple empirical case studies.
In the first study, we evaluated the efficacy of Prosocial workshops and collective problem solving on stress and burnout in special educators, showing positive changes in both variables along with increases in prosocial experiences reported by staff.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Dana Paliliunas, BCBA-D, is an Associate Teaching Professor at Ball State University and CEO and co-founder of Dynamic Behavior Science. Recently, Dr. Paliliunas has been evaluating Prosocial interventions and individualized supports rooted in Values-Based Self-Management to provide comprehensive programming at multiple levels.
Dr. Jordan Belisle, BCBA-D, is a Clinical Director at Entiva Behavioral Health and CSO and co-founder of Dynamic Behavior Science. He was a key content developer for the PEAK Relational Training System, a curriculum to support learning processes of Autistic learners and learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
This is part of ProSocial World's weekly seminar series, learn more about upcoming seminars and events here: https://www.prosocial.world/calendar-page
Seminar: Using Prosocial to Support Mental Health Services and Special Education: An Evolving Technology with Jordan Belisle & Dana Paliliunas
Mental health service providers and special educators are essential to the well-being of society, supporting vulnerable community members who are disproportionately impacted by economic and social inequality. At the same time, employees in these roles experience elevated rates of burnout and low levels of job satisfaction that can lead to workplace attrition and impact quality of life.
Prosocial is an approach to intervention that integrates elements of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACTr), Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning core design principles governing effective communities, and multilevel selection within the evolutionary sciences. We adapted this broad approach to develop specific intervention technologies for use in mental health and special education settings across multiple empirical case studies.
In the first study, we evaluated the efficacy of Prosocial workshops and collective problem solving on stress and burnout in special educators, showing positive changes in both variables along with increases in prosocial experiences reported by staff.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Dana Paliliunas, BCBA-D, is an Associate Teaching Professor at Ball State University and CEO and co-founder of Dynamic Behavior Science. Recently, Dr. Paliliunas has been evaluating Prosocial interventions and individualized supports rooted in Values-Based Self-Management to provide comprehensive programming at multiple levels.
Dr. Jordan Belisle, BCBA-D, is a Clinical Director at Entiva Behavioral Health and CSO and co-founder of Dynamic Behavior Science. He was a key content developer for the PEAK Relational Training System, a curriculum to support learning processes of Autistic learners and learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
This is part of ProSocial World's weekly seminar series, learn more about upcoming seminars and events here: https://www.prosocial.world/calendar-page
