UNITS1-6 Flashcards
Principle reason to regulate:
To protect the consumer and the general public
Why behavior analysts need regulation:
Behavior analysts work with vulnerable populations
Additional reasons to regulate: x4
- Protects practitioners
- Establishes professional identity
- Protects the field
- Enables practice
Main goal of ABA practitioners:
to help individuals we serve to achieve meaningful outcomes and improve their quality of life
ABA practitioners must provide _________ so that the individuals they serve benefit in various ways.
Comprehensive, integrated, individualized, and data-based services
ABA practice:
- The application of the principles, methods, and procedures of EAB and ABA (including the principles of operant and respondent learning)
- To assess and improve socially important human behavior
ABA practice includes: x3
- Applications of those principles, methods and procedures (EAB and ABA)
- The design, implementation, evaluation, and revision of treatment programs to change behavior of individuals and groups
- Consultation to individuals and organizations
- The application of the principles, methods, and procedures of EAB and ABA (including the principles of operant and respondent learning)
- To assess and improve socially important human behavior
ABA Practice defined
Legal vs Ethical:
State and federal statutes/rules
Legal (criminal)
Legal vs Ethical:
Codes
Ethics
Legal vs Ethical:
Service contracts and core assurances
Civil
The actual law (e.g. FL . Statute Title XXIX, chp 393)
Statutes
Administrative code that specifies the implementation of the statute (e.g. FL Administrative Code, Rule 65G-4)
Rule
One must be informed of the statutes and rules that: x4
- Regulate one’s profession
- Regulate one’s practices
- Regulate other professions that legally may engage in the same, similar, and/or related practices
- Protect the consumers one serves
The process of establishing and determining the qualifications of individuals to practice a profession, be authorized to be a service provider for an insurance company or an organization, or to be a member of a professional organization
Credentialing
The process of establishing and determining if a credentialing or a service organization engages in acceptable practices and meets specific standards.
Accreditation
The BACB is accredited by:
NCCA (The National Commission for Certifying Agencies)
Types of Professional Regulation: x3
- Certification
- Licensure
- Registry
Certification and Licensure:
- Establish minimum competencies
2. Require passing an exam testing those competencies to be awarded the credential
Restrict who can use a title
Title Acts
Restrict who can engage in the practices covered by the act
Practice Acts
Advantage of certification:
Only involves the profession - much less influenced by the political climate
Disadvantage of certification:
Does not restrict practice even though it restricts title
Advantage of licensure:
Restricts both title and practice
Disadvantage of licensure:
Dependent on political process
When is registration mostly done?
At the paraprofessional level
5.0: When behavior analysts are functioning as supervisors, they must take full responsibility for all facets of this undertaking
5.0 Behavior analysts as supervisors
- Recognize and avoid multiple relationships
- Inform supervisees of risks of multiple relationships
- Do not accept gifts
1.06 Multiple relationships and conflict of interest
- Do not exploit or have sexual relationships with those over whom you have authority
- Do not have sexual relationships with supervisees for 2 years after the professional relationship has ended
1.07 Exploitative Relationships
- Provide supervisees with an accurate and current set of the behavior analyst’s credentials, on request
- Inform supervisees of their rights and about procedures to lodge complaints
2.05 Rights and prerogatives of clients
- Protect confidentiality
- Discuss confidentiality at the beginning of the relationship and as new circumstances warrant
- Include only relevant information in communications
- Discuss information only for appropriate purposes and only with individuals concerned with such matters
- Do not share any identifying information about current clients and supervisees via social media
2.06 Maintaining Confidentiality
- Do not abandon supervisees; provide for continued services
- End relationship when supervisee no longer needs, is not benefiting from, or is being harmed by service, or requests termination.
2.15 Interrupting or discontinuing services
- Obtain and maintain knowledge regarding the security and limitations of electronic media
- Do not disclose personally identifiable information concerning supervisees or students without written consent
- Disguise confidential information concerning participants whenever delivering presentations
8.04 Media presentations and media-based services
- Assign only tasks for which researchers and assistants are trained and prepared.
- Supervisors are responsible for the ethical conduct of research conducted by assistants or by others under their supervision
9.02 Characteristics of responsible research
Ensure supervised experience standards, RBT training, and BCaBA supervision are conducted in accordance with Board’s standards
10.05 Compliance with BACB Supervision and Coursework Standards
Behavior Analysts supervise: x7
- Persons seeking BCaBA or BCBA experienec requirements
- BCaBAs
- Other BCBAs
- Direct care staff
- Employees
- Undergrad or grad students
- Other professionals
Types of supervisions/Supervisory relationships: x6
- Employer-employee
- Solid-line supervisor at workplace
- Dotted-line supervisor at workplace
- External consultant
- Contracted supervisor
- Instructor/Professor
Certification requirements x3
- University practicum
- Within-agency (supervisor works in one’s place)
- Independent Supervision (supervisor does not work at one’s workplace)
5.01: Behavior analysts supervise only within their areas of defined competence
5.01 Supervisory Competence
5.02: Behavior analysts take on only a volume of supervisory activity that is commensurate with their ability to be effective
5.02 Supervisory Volume
- 03:
a. Behavior analysts delegate to their supervisees only those responsibilities that such persons can reasonably be expected to perform competently, ethically, and safely.
b. If the supervisee does not have the skills necessary to perform competently, ethically, and safely, behavior analysts provide conditions for the acquisition of those skills
5.03 Supervisory Delegation
Behavior analysts ensure that supervision and trainings re behavior-analytic in content, effectively and ethically designed, and meet requirements for licensure, certification, or other defined goals
5.04 Designing effective supervision and training
Three criteria for effective supervision:x3
- Behavior-analytic in content
- Effectively and ethically designed
- Meets requirement
Criteria for effective supervision:
Consistent with the dimensions of applied behavior analysis identified by Baer, Wolf and Risley (1968)
Behavior-analytic in content
Criteria for effective supervision:
Structured as systematic training experience.
Fosters students acquiring the competencies in the Task List
Behavior Skills Training
Effectively and ethically designed
Criteria for effective supervision:
Primary focus should be acquiring new behavior-analytic skills related to the BACB Task List and consistent with the dimensions of ABA
Meets requirement
5.03: Behavior analysts provide a clear written description of the purpose, requirements, evaluation criteria, conditions and terms of supervision prior to the onset of the supervision
5.05 Communication of Supervision Conditions
- 06:
a) Behavior analysts design feedback and reinforcement systems in a way that improves supervisee performance
b) Behavior analysts provide documented, timely feedback of a supervisee on an ongoing basis
5.06 Providing feedback to supervisees
Feedback should be: x9
- Specific
- On performance within individual’s control
- Immediate
- Individualized
- Include self-monitoring when appropriate
- Focused on improvement
- Easily understood
- Presented graphically
- Paired with reinforcement
5.07 :
Behavior analysts design systems for obtaining ongoing evaluation of their own supervision activities
5.07 Evaluating the effects of supervision
3 levels of evaluation (of the effects of supervision)
- Supervisor behavior
- Supervisee behavior
- Client behavior
How to evaluate supervisor behavior: x4
- Providing competency-based objectives
- Providing timely feedback
- Scheduling meetings
- Documenting in a timely manner