Happy Medium RBT: Bridge Course task list #2 and #3

Is Your Company Ready for a New Kind of 40-Hour RBT Training?

The Happy Medium RBT is not just another training. It’s a neurodiversity-affirming, principle-based course that prepares RBTs for the real work of supporting complex learners—while fully covering the 2nd and 3rd Edition RBT Task Lists and RBT Ethics.

What Sets It Apart

Alongside all required competencies, your team will gain:

• A Perspective on Neurodiversity – prioritizing dignity, autonomy, and contextual fit over compliance.

• Trauma-Informed Language – practical communication skills to reduce escalation and foster safety.

• Reinforcing Precursor Behaviors – building readiness skills before high-demand learning.

• Identifying Client Values – centering plans around what matters most to individuals and families.

• Bias Awareness – noticing personal assumptions that can impact care.

• The 2 Rule – a practical guide for RBTs to seek support and supervision effectively.

Exclusive Happy Medium Tools

Staff will be introduced to core HMA strategies:

• The Noticing Grid

• ABC Skill Access

• Pendulum of Optimal Learning

• Hierarchy of Reinforcement

• Distress Tolerance Hierarchy

• Drop the Rope (maintaining safety without escalating power struggles)

• Shared Control & Be Kind Principles

• Proactive & Reactive Frames for when a plan doesn’t fit the moment.

Expanded Competency Development

• Exposure to Psychological Flexibility and the DNA-V Model
  

• Emphasis on naturalistic teaching practices

• Examples of Assent and Assent Withdrawal in action

• Ongoing focus on emotional capacities and regulation

• Strength-based learning strategies

• Differentiating autonomy vs. independence in practice

Why Practices Choose This Training

• Compliant & Current: Covers both the 2nd and 3rd Edition RBT Task Lists.

• Improved Client Outcomes: Staff trained to notice, adapt, and co-create supportive learning environments.

• Retention & Sustainability: By embedding supervision, reflection, and self-care, we reduce turnover.

• Forward-Facing Practice: Aligns with the field’s move toward trauma-informed, relational, and affirming care.

The Happy Medium RBT doesn’t just prepare staff to pass an exam. It develops competent, compassionate clinicians who bring both technical skill and relational capacity to your practice.