Episode 53 - Empathy

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are you ok? Would a podcast all about teaching empathy skills make you feel better? What if I told you that this week's discussed articles have fun puppet videos? Strange face prompting? How about really promising results in mastery of identifying and showing empathy among participants with an autism diagnosis? Yeah, yeah, it'll be fine. ABA Inside Track is here for you with a great big podcast-y hug.

Articles discussed this episode:

Schrandt, J.A., Townsend, D.B., & Poulson, C.L. (2009). Teaching empathy skills to children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42, 17-32. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-17

Argott, P.J., Townsend, D.B., & Poulson, C.L. (2017). Acquisition and generalization of complex empathetic responses among children with autism. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 10, 107-117. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0171-7

If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:15.7	Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast.
0:18.5	That's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:21.9	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Rob, it's Diana. Hey, it's Jackie.
0:28.8	What's up, guys? Hi. You all look kind of happy or sad. What's the matter? Let me put my
0:34.9	hand on your shoulder. Hey, hey, hey, hey, are you okay?
0:38.6	Put your hand on my shoulder.
0:42.6	We're playing a little game of vocal charades
0:45.0	and acting out one of our favorite, what is it,
0:48.0	an emotion, concept, empathy.
0:52.1	It's a concept.
0:53.1	It is a concept.
0:53.7	It's a concept. Or is a concept. It's a concept.
0:54.9	Or is it a behavior, guys.
0:56.7	What are we even doing?
0:58.2	This week, we are going to be talking about empathy here on our podcast, which, as always, is the behavior analytic podcast discussing behavior analytic research.
1:07.7	And like I just said, we'll be talking all about empathy, which again, sounds like
1:12.9	mentalistic. Hoo-ha! So we probably should start off by talking a little bit about what
1:18.7	empathy is. Hoopala. All I know is that Deanna Troy on Star Tech Next Generation was an empath.
1:29.4	That was the example I was going to use, and I'm really sad now.
1:32.9	It's because we don't even need to have empathy, Rob, because we actually have ESP.
1:38.1	Oh, like a mind meld.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robert Parry-Cruwys, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Robert Parry-Cruwys and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.