Tricia Vause
Associate Professor
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Tricia Vause has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral. She is interested in behavioral assessment and treatment for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), as well as dual diagnosis of ASD and other challenges such as Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior. She has worked at Medical/Counselling Centers, Residential Training Facilities, and School-Based Programs in both Canada and the United States conducting research and clinical work with the above populations. She recently completed a Randomized Controlled Trial exploring a manualized Functional Behavior-based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy as a treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Behavior in children and youth with High Functioning Autism. This trial was funded by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and the Ministry for Long-Term Care. She is currently attempting to extend this work to children of preschool age. *Tricia will be accepting graduate students in the Department of Child and Youth Studies as well as the Centre for Applied Disability Studies (CADS) for 2017-2018.
Research Interest
Functional Behavior-based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Behavioral Assessment and Treatment for Children/Youth with ASD; Discrimination Learning/Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) Test; Parent Training and School Consultation
Publications
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Vause, T., Hoekstra, S., & Feldman, M. (2014). Evaluation of Individual Function-Based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children with High Functioning Autism. Journal on Developmental Disabilities.
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Sturmey, P., Lindsay, W. R., Vause, T., & Neil, N. (2014). Anxiety disorders. In P. Sturmey and R. Didden (Eds.), Evidence-based Practice and Intellectual Disability. Chichester, UK: Wiley- Blackwell.
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Yu, C. T., Martin, T., Vause, T., & Martin, G. L. (2015). Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities- Revised: Recent Findings and a Conceptual Analysis of Ordering. International Journal of Behavior Analysis and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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Vause, T., Neil, N., Jaksic, H., Jackiewicz, G., & Feldman, M. (2015). Preliminary Randomized Trial of Function-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Treat Obsessive Compulsive Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.
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Neil, N., Vause, T., Yates, H., & Feldman, M. (in press). Effects of Group Functional Behavior-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior in a Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child and Family Behavior Therapy.
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Oliveira, M., Jaksic, H., Lee, M. S. H., Wightman, J. K., Martin, T. L., Yu, D. C. T., Vause, T., Feldman, M., & Pear, J. J. (in press). The Effects of Student Peer Review on the Efficacy of Computer-Aided System of Instruction to Teach Discrete Trials Teaching. Journal on Developmental Disabilities.
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Vause, T. D. R., Allison, D., Vause, T., Tekok-Kilic, A., Ditor, D., & Min, J. K. (submitted). Comparison of a web-based teaching tool and traditional didactic learning for in vitro fertilization patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Reproductive Biomedicine Online.
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Jaksic, H., Vause, T., Frijters, J., & Feldman, M. (revise and resubmit). A Comparison of a Novel Application of Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Nonparametric Analysis for Single Subject Designs. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice.
