Teaching Consent: Building Skills Across the Lifespan for Giving and Receiving an Embodied “Yes” | Ethics BCBA CEU Credits: 2
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This workshop is designed to equip behavior analysts with structured, developmentally sensitive strategies for cultivating authentic consent skills throughout the lifespan.
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This workshop is designed to equip behavior analysts with structured, developmentally sensitive strategies for cultivating authentic consent skills throughout the lifespan. Teaching Consent in ABA is a fundamental component of this training, and participants will learn to identify critical consent behaviors, create learner‑tailored consent exchanges from early education through adulthood, and impart both social and safety skills fundamental to giving and receiving an embodied “yes.” Instructional methods are grounded in behavior-analytic frameworks and enriched by empirical findings on functional-contextual consent teaching. The Teaching Consent in ABA curriculum also critically addresses ethical limitations and potential risks inherent in consent programming. (Behavior Analyst CE, 2025)
This course goes beyond the scope of the current BCBA and BCaBA Task Lists by explicitly addressing the behavior-analytic teaching of consent—including both sexual and non-sexual contexts—through a functional contextual framework that supports honoring autonomy across the lifespan. It remains behavior-analytic in nature by emphasizing the identification and assessment of consent-related behaviors, the use of structured decision-making trees, preference assessments, and systematic instructional sequences to teach and nurture consent skill repertoires. Teaching Consent in ABA provides certified and aspiring behavior analysts with ethical, developmentally appropriate, and empirically supported strategies to foster authentic consent exchanges that respect learner autonomy and reduce coercion.
Publication Date: June 2025
In summary, Teaching Consent in ABA offers 2 Ethics CEU credits for BACB, QABA, and IBAO, making it a valuable ethics resource.
BACB CEUs
2 Credits
IBAO CEUs
2 Credits
QABA CEUs
2 Credits
Type of Credit
Ethics
Course Format
Video + Activities
ACE Provider
ACE Provider Information Provider Name: 123 Behavior Analyst CE Provider Type: Organization Provider Number: OP-23-10561 Next Renewal Date: 10/31/2026
Learning Objectives
Generate a list of both sexual and non-sexual behaviors which require consent
Demonstrate the use of decision making trees for teaching consent skills to a learner when given a scenario
Demonstrate the use of preference assessments for teaching consent skills to a learner when given a scenario
List critical steps for facilitating consent-centric interactions
Speaker/Author
Worner Leland (they/them) is an agender, autistic, disabled human, and a behavior analyst. They are a former researcher and educator with Upswing Advocates, a current educator with Collab Lab and Sex Ed Continuing Ed, and a current collaborative writer with the Assent Lab and the Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group. They are a past president of the Sexual Behavior Research and Practice SIG of ABAI, and are the current president of the inaugural Board of Applied Behavioral Sexology. Their work focuses on sex education, assent and consent education, and harm reduction and coercion reduction education in behavior analysis.
Published Peer-Reviewed Research or Books on the Subject
☑ Yes
Author and co-author of peer-reviewed journal articles and scholarly book chapters addressing consent, assent, autonomy, sexuality, ethics, and contextual behavioral approaches within applied behavior analysis. Published work includes contributions to Routledge volumes and articles in Behavior Analysis in Practice examining consent, social validity, risk reduction, and ethical considerations in teaching autonomy-related repertoires—directly aligned with the course’s focus on consent skill development across the lifespan.
≥ 5 Years of Practical Experience(e.g., direct service delivery, applied practice, professional engagement)
☑ Yes
Nearly a decade of applied professional experience as a BCBA and Licensed Behavior Analyst providing direct services and consultation for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing consent- and autonomy-focused programming, addressing social and safety skills, reducing coercion, and supporting embodied assent and consent within ethically grounded, developmentally sensitive behavior-analytic frameworks.
≥ 3 Years Teaching / Training / Mentoring Experience
☑ Yes
Extensive experience teaching and training behavior analysts and allied professionals as adjunct faculty, CE instructor, and conference presenter. Has delivered numerous workshops, graduate-level instruction, and continuing education courses focused on consent, sexuality, autonomy, ethics, and assent-based practice, including lifespan-oriented consent instruction and risk-aware programming.
