Qualitative Analysis of RBT Burnout w/ Dr. Nicole Gravina

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Since you can only get so far with surveys of how frequetly registered behavior technicians want to quit their jobs due to burnout, we wondered, is it possible to gather more relevant, actionable research questions? Enter Dr. Nicole Gravina who, with her colleagues, used qualitative analysis research design to dig deeper into more of the “whys” behind how burnout develops for RBTs in Florida, and what supervisors can do to help. Put down your calculators and get out your dictionaries for this episode: We’re looking at words in research!

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Articles discussed this episode:

Nastasi, J.A., McGarry, K.M., Peters, K.P., Leon, Y., Bacotti, J.K., & Gravina, N. (2024). A qualitative analysis of variables contributing to the Registered Behavior Technicians’ burnout and turnover in Florida. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-01033-w

Nastasi, J.A., Green, V., Te, P.J., & Gravina, N.E. (2024). “Everybody needs to take breaks”: A qualitative analysis of Registered Behavior Technicians’ experiences with taking breaks at work. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-00973-7

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:14.2	Welcome to ABA Inside Track the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:19.4	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me, as
0:21.3	always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Rob, it's me, Diana. Perry Cruz. It's me, Jackie, not Perry
0:27.8	Cruz. Jackie McDonald. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to another show about a going on in
0:35.5	behavior analysis and behavior analytic research. And we're going to have a topic.
0:39.8	We're going to talk about that topic.
0:41.3	We're going to discuss it at length.
0:43.2	But I got to be honest, we've done a lot of episodes of this show.
0:46.5	We've done over 300.
0:48.8	And it's like so many graphs and so many, you know, pre and post test or statistics. And I'm tired of it. I want to
0:58.7	talk about research where it's like a story. I just want to get like people's thoughts on the matter,
1:03.8	but I want there to be like a scientific way to do that rather than just like, you know,
1:08.0	getting my uncle's right wing Facebook page ideas and putting that as a paper,
1:11.8	because I don't think that would count as a peer-reviewed method.
1:14.7	I want something that's like a little bit more meaty from the qualitative side of things.
1:21.8	I don't always need numbers because we're missing some information.
1:25.0	And if you could do this, folks, I really would appreciate it if we could also talk about
1:29.3	subjects that matter like, you know, job burnout, right?
1:33.2	So if we could do that, that would be really, really awesome.
1:36.2	And maybe just maybe we could find somebody else, because I'm kind of tired of talking to you
1:40.8	too, like somebody brand new to join us.
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