Webinar #3 Food Selectivity. An Overview of Food Selectivity Treatment "Eating Without Tears"

Food selectivity is a common problem among children, including those with developmental disabilities. Many existing treatments are difficult to implement at home or in school and can increase problem behaviors. In this webinar, Dr. Gover will present a treatment protocol called " Eating without tears " that is useful for addressing food selectivity without using escape extinction, based on three main elements:

1. Indirect and direct measurement of food preferences to identify foods to use in treatment.

2. Assessing the sensitivity of problem mealtime behavior to environmental variables using interview-informed synthesized contingency analysis (IISCA).

3. Integrating the analysis findings into a progressive treatment that provides choice opportunities and uses differential reinforcement of successive approximations to eating.

The approach prioritizes the child's autonomy and is applicable in everyday contexts. This approach has been shown to be effective in increasing the variety of foods consumed without provoking problem behaviors or eliciting negative emotional responses (Gover et al., 2023).

Goals:

1. Describe a safe, comprehensive behavioral assessment process to understand variables that influence food selectivity and problem mealtime behaviors.

2. Describe the main components of treatment: shaping through synthesized reinforcers, with integrated choice opportunities and prompts, without the use of escape extinction.

CEU BACB and IBAO Credits are available.

CEU BACB 2 General, 1 Ethics

CEU IBAO 2 ABA Topics, 1 Ethics

Simultaneous translation is provided.

The event will be held via the ZOOM platform.

Registration fee

• €70.00 including VAT for Course + CEU.

To complete your registration, you must pay the fee by credit card by selecting the ticket below or by bank transfer to: BA Services SRLS IBAN IT36A0303203210010000902855 and send a receipt of payment to segreteria@baservices.it . In the same email, you must enter all the billing information. If you need an Electronic Invoice, you must indicate the PEC address or Unique Code. In the Reason for Payment, you must enter "Webinar Gen/Feb 2025 n. 3" and the name, if the transfer is made from a current account in the name of someone else.

WEBINAR CYCLES DISCOUNT

• All 2 webinars Food Selectivity ( No. 2 Food Selectivity and No. 3 Food Selectivity) discounted to 126.00 including VAT instead of 140.00 including VAT. To participate in these two webinars you must select the corresponding ticket below or, if you want to make a bank transfer you must write to the secretariat and pay the reduced fee foreseen by inserting the wording (Webinar Jan/Feb 2025 No. 2, 3) in the reason for payment.

Target audience: Behavior analysts, Behavior analyst assistants, Behavior technicians, Neuropsychiatrists, Psychologists, Educators, Neuropsychomotor therapists, Speech therapists, Occupational therapists, Health workers, other specialists with basic training in ABA, parents.

SPEAKER

DR. HOLLY C. GOVER, Ph.D, BCBA

Dr. Gover is a licensed, doctoral-level, board-certified behavior analyst with over a decade of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities. She worked with Dr. Gregory Hanley at Western New England University, where she earned her PhD in behavior analysis, while she was a clinician and principal investigator at the Life Skills Clinic, focusing on improving assessment and treatment processes for challenging behaviors. She also led the development of the protocol they co-designed with Dr. Hanley and the FTF Behavioral Consulting team for the assessment and treatment of food selectivity, called the Eating without Tears program. Since her time at the university, she has published research on Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skill-Based Treatment (SBT), assessment and treatment of food selectivity, incorporating trauma-informed treatment strategies into behavioral services, and consent-based learning models. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he serves as the Associate Director of Behavioral Outcomes at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's (VKC) Treat and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD).

Dr. Gover has trained professionals from across North America, as well as Brazil, Italy, Nicaragua, and Israel. She is passionate about providing effective solutions to professionals and families struggling with behavioral issues, especially food selectivity. Since January 2025, Dr. Gover has served as the Lead Consultant and Director of Client Relations for FTF Behavioral Consulting .