PURPOSE
The purpose of the project is to explore and identify personal, job, performance, organizational, and jurisdictional factors that predict or influence well-being in specific helping professions (i.e., Developmental Services and Applied Behaviour Analysis; ABA) and their related training programs. The first three professional groups invited to participate are:
- Supported Living Professionals: Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) and their supervisors in group or individual community-based supported living programs for adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in Canada.
- ABA Service Providers: Behaviour Analysts (BAs), their supervisees, and managers in Canada and globally.
- ABA Faculty & Students: Students and faculty in ABA Graduate programs (Masters and Doctoral Levels) globally
PLAN
The Bridges and Barriers to Professional Wellbeing Studies are a series of research projects conducted by Dr. Rosemary Condillac and her graduate studies.
The projects have three interrelated components. All participants will be invited to complete a comprehensive survey regarding their professional well-being.
Participants will have the opportunity to volunteer to participate in follow up focus groups to provide further feedback and insights.
Participants in the initial survey will be invited to complete a brief follow up survey about a year later to allow us to examine workplace well-being and associated factors over time.
OUTCOMES
The results of this project will provide important insights into the common variables associated with well-being of employees in helping professions and their associated training programs. There are potential implications surrounding how training programs can improve education about well-being in preparation for sending professionals into the helping professions workforce and how these skills can be maintained.
The results will be used to inform and make recommendations to organizations and policy makers to support employee and student well-being and to inform/develop future research on effective supports and services to improve and maintain good employee and student well-being.
RESEARCH ETHICS
This study has been reviewed and received ethics clearance through Brock University’s Research Ethics Board [file # 25-290 – CONDILLAC].
If you have any questions about these studies or your rights as a research participant, please contact the Brock University Research Ethics Officer (905.688.5550 x 3035, [email protected]).
