Communicating with Families and Maintaining Professional Boundaries Flashcards
Professional behavior
Professional behavior involves knowing how to perform the needed skills at a high level, consistently engaging in ethical behavior, and communicating effectively with clients, families, colleagues, and supervisors.
Ethical behavior
RBTs treat others with compassion, dignity and respect. They ensure their competence and behave with integrity.
Compassionate care
recognizing and understanding that families of individuals with autism have concerns and emotions related to their loved one.
Self-awareness
Being able to identify and understand your individual preferences, what is aversive to you and how you show what you are feeling. It is also being aware of your own thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Self-monitoring
Being aware and acting on your own feelings and responses to different interactions with others.
Professional boundaries
Limits to the relationship between someone providing a service and the person or people receiving those services.
Conflict of interest
When personal interests interfere with professional judgement.
Multiple relationships
When two or more relationships are mixed such as a friend and a client’s family member.
Active listening
Being accepting or open to what that person is saying and giving them 100% attention.