Ethics Terms Flashcards
What are the 4 functions of behavior?
- Attention
- sensory/automatic
- access to tangible/edible
- escape particular place, person, activity
What is the core principal related to responsibility designing behavior change programs?
Accepting accountability: we have to be accountable when treatments do not work
What is the core principal related to treating clients with respect and respecting their wishes?
According dignity
This demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurence of the behavior- if functional relation is demonstrated
Analytic
Environmental events that occur before the behavior
Antecedent
Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s)
Applied
Science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify variables responsible for behavior change
Applied Behavior Analysis
An unpleasant or noxious stimulus– a stimulus change or condition that functions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or reinforce when withdrawn following behavior
aversive procedures
task list for skills that are common behavior analytic tasks that will be tested on the BACB exam
BCBA Task List
Conducts assessments and can interpret results and design ethical treatment for situations and scenarios that are similar to what they encountered in supervised field work. Must receive supervision at least 1 hour per month
BCaBA
Certification board for behavior analysts.
BACB
Individuals who hold BCBA or BCaBA credential.
Behavior Analysts
Formally written document that describes in technological detail every assessment and treatment task necessary to achieve stated goals
Behavior Change Program
services that are explicitly based on principles and procedures of behavior analysis and are designed to change behavior in socially important ways
Behavior Analytic Services
entails precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject’s behavior that was changed.
Behavioral
- An individual has a right to a therapeutic environment
- Individuals have right to services whose overriding goal is personal welfare
- competent behavior analyst
- programs that teach functional skills
- behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluations
Behavioral treatment rights
Core principle meaning that you should treat others as you would like to be treated
Being Just
core principle we should be dependable and reliable sources of wise counsel and effective, ethical treatment
Being faithful
Core principle primary role of a behavior analysts is to benefit others in whatever setting or situation they are in, can put behavior analysts at odds with other professionals
Benefiting others
indpendent practitioner that may work independently or through an agency. The BCBA conducts descriptive assessment, functional analysis and provides behavior analytic servces. Often serve as consultants. BCBA’s the only individuals’ qualified to oversee BCaBA staff according to the Behavior
Board Certified Behavior Analysts BCBA
refers any recipient or beneficiary of the professional The term includes, but not limited to (a) The direct recipient of services; b) The parent, as well as others
Client
behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior.
Conceptually systematic
Describes a situation of trust insofar as any in-formation regarding a person receiving or having received services may not be discussed with or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information.
Confidentiality
