Psychopharmacology and Autism: Clinical Applications Workshop (Recorded)
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How can behavioral observations help a team have a clearer conversation? In this recorded discussion, Deborah P. Coehlo and Manya C. Ralkowski connect ABC records, caregiver interviews and teaching examples with communication among families, schools and medical professionals.
What the workshop discusses
- ABC records: describing what happened before a behavior, the observable behavior and what happened immediately afterward. The discussion also covers making a scatter plot readable by adding the activities happening at those times.
- Caregiver and team interviews: gathering information about when a behavior occurs, when it does not and what is working in successful parts of the day.
- Teaching examples: first–then schedules, ways to initiate attention, responding to directions and accepting a different available choice. The speakers discuss the tools rather than read every step of each protocol.
- Screening and school transitions: a discussion of screening versus diagnosis, parent conversations and the differences between medical diagnosis and educational eligibility.
- Multidisciplinary communication: organizing baseline observations, goals and time-of-day patterns for discussion with the family, school and prescribing clinician. A medical consultation is distinguished from a request for a prescription.
- Adolescent and adult services: participant questions about transition resources, job skills, hygiene and social skills, including acknowledged gaps in locally available services.
This is a recorded discussion of clinical applications and tools, including historical screening and medication examples. It does not establish a diagnosis, medication choice or intervention plan for an individual. Medical decisions remain with the person's qualified medical professional.
Format, price and access
Includes one recorded workshop, listed as one hour. Price: $59 for one user, with 30 days of active access for the individual purchase. The forms discussed in the recording are not included as downloadable files with this individual purchase.
Certificate: This recording issues a certificate of completion after the training quiz is passed. It does not currently issue BACB continuing-education credit.
Recording presenters: Deborah P. Coehlo and Manya C. Ralkowski. These are the names in the recording credits; the linked biographies describe their work at the time.
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Special Learning rating snapshot: October 13, 2026, at 14:57 Central. Rating responses are the latest question-matched answer per customer account and recording, including partial answers; repeat answers are not added again. The average uses only complete six-question forms. This is a small sample.
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| Recording | Average / 5 | Rating responses | Complete six-question forms |
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| Psychopharmacology and Autism: Clinical Applications Workshop | 4.83 | 6 | 2 |
In respondents' own words
Two anonymous written responses from the October 11, 2026 comment extraction. The first answered "How can we make this training better?"; the second answered the follow-up for a rating lower than 4. Each response keeps its original wording.
include downloadable materials for the clinical workshop
Training improvement response, 2023
The forms that were discussed looked like wonderful resources; however, I was not able to locate them on the recorded webinar.
Low-rating follow-up response, 2025
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Meet the Presenters
Dr. Debbie Coehlo is a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist with a Doctoral Degree in Family Sciences and Human Development. She is the Founder and Director of Juniper Pediatrics, a clinic modeled after John F Kennedy’s multidisciplinary system of care. Using a holistic, integrated care model, Juniper provides counseling, medication management and family therapy for children with ASD, ADHD and other childhood mental health disorders.
Dr. Coehlo completed her Master’s in Nursing with a specialty in parent- child nursing. She spent 10 years working at the Child Development Center at the University of Washington in the Genetics Clinic and Multidisciplinary Clinic. In 1999, she complete her Doctorate degree in Human Development and Family Studies.
She continues to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level and had pursued research in the area of social networking, transitioning to out of home care for families, and child development.
Dr. Coehlo is a co- editor for the 4th and 5th edition of Family Health Nursing (F.A. Dais, 2010/2013) and has published several journal articles in the areas of families choosing residential care, families in transition, family health nursing, and care of children with special health care needs.
Ms. Manya Ralkowski has been practicing in the field of applied behavior analysis for over 25 years. Her training began under direct education and training from consultants from the Lovaas Clinic in Los Angeles while completing her bachelor of arts in Communication Disorders with endorsements in special education and psychology at Western Washington University. Ms. Ralkowski continued her education and training with a master’s degree in Education from Lesley University and a graduate certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from the University of Washington while working as an assistant teacher on the Project DATA grant at the Haring Center-Professional Training Unit. She also possesses a doctorate degree in Instructional Leadership.
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