Ethics and Professionalism for RBTS Flashcards
Response Cost
Taking away an item or privelege in response to a behavior.
EXAMPLE:
Taking away a token off a token board for throwing a chair.
Time Out From Positive Reinforcement
Time out from positive reinforcement involces denying a person the opportunity to receive reinforcement due to the display of a behavior.
EXAMPLE:
Making a child wait to start recess 10 minutes after their class because they called a classmate a bad name.
Response Blocking
Physically blocking someone from enaging in a behavior
Example:
Raising your hand to interfere with someone else’s trying to hit you with their fist.
General responsibilities
RBT Ethics Code standards covering basic professionalism, competence, discrimination, and multiple relationships
Responsibilities in providing behavior technician services
RBT Ethics Code standards covering how to support clients and their families ethically
Responsibilities to the BACB and BACB-required supervisor
RBT Ethics Code standards covering compliance with the BACB and supervisors
Truthful behavior
Avoiding making false, misleading, or exaggerated statements and keeping accurate records
Integrity
Being professional and accountable, providing services within their defined role under close supervision
Ethical treatment
Treating others in a way that allows them dignity, respect, and safety
Competence
Being able to carry out RBT services accurately
Client
Someone who receives behavior services. Sometimes a client can be a group of individuals, like a social skills group.
Client’s rights
All rights that benefit the client. This includes human, legal, and the rights relevant to receiving behavior analysis services.
Conflict of interest
A mismatch between an RBT’s private and professional life. It may cause a risk to services to a client or other professional relationships.
Multiple relationship
Mixing personal and professional relationships with a client, their family member, associate, supervisor, or coworker
Dignity
Treating others as worthy, valued, and respected
Behavior change
Using ABA strategies to either increase or decrease the display of a targeted behavior
Punishment
A stimulus used to decrease an undesirable behavior
Intrusive intervention
A procedure or strategy that restricts physical freedom of movement used for the goal of changing a behavior
Least intrusive intervention
The level of intervention necessary, reasonable, and humanely appropriate to the client’s needs
Confidentiality
Keeping information about a client, their intervention, or any other information about them private
Stakeholder
An individual other than the client who is impacted by ABA services, such as a parent, legally authorized representative, employer, teacher, or third-party contractor for services
Cultural competence
Process for learning to act in a way that creates conditions to help clients succeed by honoring different cultures and continuing to learn about them. It is also having a positive attitude about cultural differences and respect those from other cultures.
Cultural humility
A lifelong process of self-reflection to look for ways to reduce the power imbalance between the client and the clinician. It is also a respect for and lack of superiority toward another person’s background.
Cultural responsiveness
Realizing that when working with clients and their families, culture plays a role in how they accept program targets, reinforcers, and interactions
Mandated reporter
A person who because of their work role must report suspected abuse and neglect
