Professional Communication & Documentation
When a major safety crisis occurs during a session, this is the timeframe and person to whom it must be reported.
What is immediately to the direct supervisor?
Holding oneself to high professional standards by remaining honest, reliable, and trustworthy is defined as behaving with this core value.
What is Integrity?
Attention, Escape, Tangible, and Sensory (Automatic) represent these four fundamental concepts in ABA.
What are the four primary functions of behavior?
An antecedent intervention that temporarily increases the value of a reinforcer, often through deprivation.
What is an Establishing Operation (EO)?
Phrases like "The client engaged in property destruction 3 times" are used instead of subjective terms like "bad mood" to maintain this required standard in session notes.
What is objective, measurable language?
If a parent demands an RBT implement a procedure that violates client dignity, the RBT must cite ethical guidelines and take this action immediately.
What is escalate the issue to the supervisor?
Whenever implementing a behavior reduction strategy, it must always be paired with teaching one of these to ensure long-term skill acquisition.
What is a functionally equivalent replacement behavior?
Presenting 3 quick, easy requests before presenting a difficult task utilizes this momentum-building antecedent strategy.
What is the High-Probability (High-P) Request Sequence?
Discussing client details in a public coffee shop violates this federal law regarding health information privacy.
What is HIPAA?
Practicing strictly within your defined scope and fulfilling professional commitments falls under this BACB ethical standard.
What is Ensure Competence and Responsibility?
Reinforcing a client for asking for a break instead of crying when overwhelmed is an example of this specific differential reinforcement procedure.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)?
Providing the maintaining reinforcer on a fixed time schedule regardless of behavior to lower motivation for problem behavior is known as this.
What is Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR)?
The designated timeframe for submitting routine session notes and non-crisis clinical observations.
What is within 24 hours?
This mandatory ethical prerequisite must occur before any punishment procedure can be considered or implemented.
What is exhausting and documenting reinforcement-based procedures first?
Reinforcing a client for keeping their hands in their pockets to prevent hitting others is an example of this differential reinforcement procedure.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)?
A temporary, predictable spike in the frequency, intensity, or duration of a target behavior immediately following the implementation of extinction.
What is an Extinction Burst?
This is the primary role of an RBT on a multidisciplinary team—acting as the direct link between the client and supervisor by collecting objective data.
What is documenting objective data and reporting to the supervisor?
Emotional reactions, escape or avoidance, behavioral contrast, and lack of replacement skill instruction are known limitations/side effects of this type of procedure.
What are punishment procedures?
This type of differential reinforcement provides reinforcers whenever the target maladaptive behavior has NOT occurred throughout a specified time interval.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)?
The three sequential steps of the Crisis Intervention Protocol when severe target behavior poses imminent danger.
What are (1) Environmental Clearing, (2) Calling for Assistance, and (3) Approved Management?