The International Development Grant will be used to develop a series of training sessions at the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University. There will be two kinds of sessions: one for professional training and one for parental training. The former will be focused on training graduate students in the Institute of Mental Health of Peking University. Courses will include Principles of Behavior, Behavioral Assessments and Interventions, Radical Behaviorism, and Applied Research Methods. Parental training will focus on parents with autistic children. ABA training methods have been very popular in the US for training children with autism, and there are many professionals engaged in such areas. However, in China, ‘applied behavior analysis’ is a new term for many professionals, even in psychology. Since parents with autistic children are in great need of such techniques, while professionals who are good at these techniques are scarce, we want first to train parents to train their children using ABA methods. Concurrently, professionals will be trained gradually to meet professional guidelines. The professional training sessions will not only educate professionals to provide support for parents with autistic children, but also will foster interest in different areas of applied behavior analysis.
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