Definitions
The individual who directly receives services from the behavior analyst.
What is a client?
Behavior analysts prioritize the welfare and rights of their clients above any other considerations.
What is benefit others?
Behavior analysts must be aware of unfair thoughts and feelings toward others and work to address them.
What are personal biases?
Behavior analyst should provide accurate information to clients, stakeholders, and other professionals during their service delivery.
What is being truthful?
These assumptions could have negative impact on a behavior analysts service delivery with clients.
A person, aside from the client, who is affected by and has a vested interest in the services provided by the behavior analyst.
What is a stakeholder?
Behavior analysts safeguard and advocate for the client's autonomy to the fullest extent.
What is treating others with compassion, dignity, and respect?
This type of relationship could cause harm to one or more individuals due to a conflict of interest.
What is a multiple relationship?
When a Behavior analyst takes credit for something that they did not create.
What is plagarism?
Behavior analyst can set up this type of relationship to receive further support from another individual with expertise in the culture they do not have competency.
What is culturally responsive supervision?
Any person whose behavior services are supervised by a behavior analyst through an established and mutually agreed-upon relationship.
What is a supervisee?
Behavior analysts take responsibility for their own work and that of their supervisees and trainees. When it occurs, they promptly rectify any errors.
What is behaving with integrity?
The behavior analyst must have this before beginning an assessment, implementing a treatment plan, billing third-party funders, or collaborating with other professionals on a case.
What is obtaining informed consent?
Behavior analysts are accountable to for being aware of and adhering to additional entities than the BACB.
What are laws, regulations, and agency policies.
Behavior analyst can set up this type of relationship to receive further support from another individual with expertise in the culture they do not have competency.
What is supervision or consultation?
The rights of individuals, encompass human rights, legal rights, rights specified in behavior analysis principles, and organizational regulations aimed at the well-being of the client.
What is the client's rights?
Behavior analysts strive to maintain awareness of, operate within, and consistently assess the limits of their professional competence.
What is ensuring their competence?
This type of analysis helps to ensure that the behavior analyst has considered all factors that could impede assessment and treatment success.
Risk-Benefit Analysis
Prior to a supervisee or trainee implementing a task, Behavior analysts should ensure that their supervisees and trainees are competent in that area.
What is delegating tasks?
Behavior analysts should ensure that those they supervise (e.g, RBTs, BCaBAs, trainees) are aware of and address cultural needs.
What is culturally responsive supervision?
Services that are clearly rooted in the principles and techniques of behavior analysis, with the intention of bringing about significant changes in behavior.
What are behavioral services?
The core principles are foundational principles that serve as a framework for this part of the ethics code.
What are the ethics standards?
A behavior analyst should submit this report to the BACB when they become aware of any mental or physical health, legal, or other personal circumstances that could impede their service delivery.
What is self-reporting?
Behavior analysts ensure that the information in these type of statements that they provide on social media, websites, and conferences.
What is accuracy in public statements?
Behavior analysts ensure their service delivery is fair and inclusive for all clients they work with irrespective of factors such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender expression/identity, immigration status, marital/relationship status, etc.
What is nondiscrimination?