Yors Garcia
Bio:
Yors Garcia is a Board-certified behavior analyst that graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2011 with a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Services with a specialization in behavior analysis. His prior experience includes roles as a behavior analyst at a private nonprofit program serving individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, an adjunct and practicum supervisor in the Behavior Analysis program at the University of Nevada, Reno, and on-site and remote supervision in different countries, including Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and the USA. Subsequently, he has been an associate professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP) and Konrad Lorenz University in Bogota, Colombia. He is the current president of the Culture & Diversity ABAI SIG and associate editor of The Psychological Record. Yors’ current research work includes supervising doctoral dissertations and conducting studies of acceptance and commitment training, derived relational responding, international supervision, bias, and racism. He is passionate about research, teaching, and dissemination of behavior analysis worldwide. He also has worked with Latin communities in Colombia and USA. He is a founding member of the ABAI chapter in Colombia.
Abstract:
Chapter 33: PERSPECTIVE TAKING
A Relational Frame Approach to Understanding Perspective-Taking in Compassion and Social Justice
One important precursor to prosocial behavior is thinking about the suffering of those in need of help, or perspective-taking. Perspective-taking is an essential skill for navigating our social world and a deficit in this area may fuel social conflict, aggression, racial bias, prejudice, and many other social issues. In this chapter, we provide a behavior-analytic description of perspective-taking and its role in establishing compassion skills and utility in social justice. In particular, a relational frame approach to perspective-taking is presented in the first section of the chapter. In the following section, we present a relational frame description of compassion and the role of perspective-taking. In the last section of this chapter, we describe how perspective-taking influences social relations, in particular, social justice.
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Chapter 36: RACISM
Applying Behavior Analysis to Dismantle Racism: From Ideas to Action
Our world faces an entrenched problem of prejudicial behaviors called racism. Despite ongoing efforts of advocacy and resistance, racism has persisted across generations and cultures. The chapter proposes ways that behavior analysts can learn about racism from a behavioral perspective, extend experimental analyses of prejudice, and intervene to reduce racism in varied settings. We aim to describe both traditional behavior-analytic and functional contextualist accounts of racism and summarize the limited related empirical and applied research. The review suggests combining traditional behavior-analytic methods with acceptance and commitment training techniques may attenuate racism more effectively.
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