AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER THROUGH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND A HUMANE PERSPECTIVE

An Odyssey with Anum Farooq (Odyssey Global Media)

BOB BOWEN: AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER THROUGH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND A HUMANE PERSPECTIVE

Bob Bowen is an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Malone University in Canton,
Ohio (USA) and a behavior support practitioner with Prag Consulting in Melbourne, Australia. He has over 40 years of experience supporting individuals with complex behavioral needs in the United States, Canada, and Australia. He has provided keynote and plenary presentations at conferences in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States.

Bob is the developer of The Matrix of Needs, an innovative approach to understanding human needs. He has published over 20 peer and scientifically reviewed articles, three book chapters, and presented hundreds of workshops on the prevention of workplace violence, while improving the quality of life for people affected by disabilities, and the staff who support them.

During his career in human services, Bob has held positions ranging from direct support professional to CEO and almost everything in between.

He has also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester in New York for eleven years, and also has experience teaching at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, and at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa. In his work and his writing, Bob strives to integrate his passion for knowledge and compassion for people into a humanistic framework for behavior support that is trauma centered, not just trauma informed.

Bob is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the National Psychosocial Safety
Network in Australia, the Restraint Reduction Network in the United Kingdom, the
National Association of Social Workers, the National Organization of Human Services and the Association for Positive Behaviour Support. Bob is certified in trauma treatment through the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, and the Trauma Research Foundation