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DESCRIPTION

Applied behavior analysts face persistent occupational demands, including high caseloads, emotional labor, and limited job autonomy, which can increase risk for practitioner burnout and negatively impact treatment integrity and professional sustainability. While many clinicians have limited control over workload volume, they often retain some ability to modify how their work is structured, experienced, and interpreted.

This webinar introduces job crafting as an evidence-informed, practice-relevant approach to supporting sustainable professional performance in applied behavior analysis. Job crafting involves practitioner-initiated adjustments to work-related tasks, professional interactions, and rule-governed behavior in ways that remain within ethical and organizational constraints.

Emphasis will be placed on relational and cognitive job crafting strategies that are feasible within typical clinical ABA roles and that support ethical practice, professional competence, and high-quality service delivery. Participants will engage in guided application activities and will develop a brief, individualized job crafting plan designed to support long-term professional effectiveness without reducing service quality or scope of practice.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Identify common occupational variables in applied behavior analysis that contribute to practitioner burnout and risk for reduced treatment integrity.
2. Describe task, relational, and cognitive job crafting strategies and differentiate which are most feasible within typical clinical ABA roles.
3. Apply relational and cognitive job crafting strategies to modify professional interactions and work-related rule-governed behavior in ways that support ethical and sustainable practice.
4. Develop a brief job crafting action plan that aligns with organizational constraints, professional scope of practice, and ethical service delivery.