Bonus Episode 15 - Discussing School Refusal w/ Dr. Christopher Kearney
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Treating chronic absenteeism and school-refusal behavior is a growing need in many parts of the world. Heck, we even did a whole episode on it! Luckily, we have dedicated psychologists like Dr. Christopher Kearney working to meet these challenges through research and writings for professionals and for parents. Dr. Kearney joins Rob on the show this week to talk about his original research in developing the School-Refusal Assessment Scale and to troubleshoot some tough school-refusal scenarios.
Interested in learning more about school-refusal behavior? Check out ABA Inside Track Episode 58 for a nice overview of some of Dr. Kearney's research. Then head on over to Amazon to pick up one of Dr. Kearney's books including Rob's favorite summer read, "Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents".
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm your host robert perry |
| 0:21.5 | cruise here solo for a special bonus episode now for those of you who've been listening to our show |
| 0:29.2 | which of course is a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research |
| 0:34.3 | you might remember that we did a whole episode devoted to research on school |
| 0:39.7 | refusal behavior. |
| 0:41.8 | Diana is not here to tell me exactly what episode it was, but go check the archives. |
| 0:45.4 | School refusal behavior, if you haven't heard it. |
| 0:47.6 | It was a nice review of a lot of the work of Dr. Christopher Carney and his work on school |
| 0:54.0 | refusal behavior. And it was interesting because it Carney and his work on school refusal behavior. |
| 0:54.9 | And it was interesting because it definitely looked |
| 0:56.7 | at school refusal as a behavior, |
| 0:58.7 | which meant it had functions. |
| 1:00.9 | Now, I was very fortunate to be able to get in touch |
| 1:04.0 | with Dr. Carney for a little interview |
| 1:06.1 | to discuss the school refusal assessment development process, some of the issues that come up related to working |
| 1:13.2 | with younger students and older students who engage in school refusal behavior, and to talk a little |
| 1:18.6 | bit about the process of updating his book, helping school refusing children and their parents, |
| 1:24.4 | which is now in a second edition. So without any further ado, here is ABA Inside Tracks interview with Dr. Christopher Carney. |
| 1:32.8 | So we are here talking to Dr. Christopher Carney, the chair of psychology at the University of Nevada |
| 1:38.6 | in Las Vegas, and director of the UNLV Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. |
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