Don't Play with Fire
The goals of behavior analysts are benefiting others, behaving with integrity, and treating people with this.
Compassion, dignity, and respect
E-3 says BCBAs maintain competence through reading literature, seeking consultation, and establishing this type of relationship with more experienced professionals.
What is mentorship?
: E-4 requires BCBAs to protect this category of information, anything that could be used to identify a client.
What is confidential information?
E-9 names this ongoing practice of self-reflection about one's own cultural assumptions, biases, and privilege as a professional obligation.
What is cultural humility?
A BCBA has her supervisee sign off on live supervision hours they never completed. The E-1 principle she has violated is this
What is integrity?
A BCBA falsifies session notes to bill for hours not worked. According to E-2, the consequences extend beyond the individual to these two broader groups.
Others (clients, supervisees, colleagues) and the profession
Before a Kentucky BCBA offers telehealth to a Tennessee client, E-12 requires her to check this first.
What is licensure requirements in that state?
A BCBA posts about her 'nonverbal client's huge breakthrough' on Facebook. E-5 calls this a violation because it is this type of statement.
What is a public statement disclosing confidential client information?
A BCBA who begins supervising the sibling of a current client has entered into this type of relationship, which E-7 requires her to identify, document, and manage.
What is a multiple relationship?
A client has met every behavioral goal and the BCBA has no new clinical objectives. E-6 says it is time to consider this.
What is discontinuing services?
A BCBA with no training in eating disorders accepts a case anyway. This E-1 principle, the obligation to avoid causing harm through incompetent practice, is the one she's violating.
What is "do no harm"
A BCBA with no background in substance use treatment receives a referral in that area. E-3 says this is what she must do before saying yes.
What is seek training or consultation first?
A supervisee wants to post a blurred client video on Instagram. E-4 says this document is required before that can happen.
What is written informed consent?
E-6 says a BCBA should consider discontinuing services when this condition is met.
What is when services are no longer benefiting the client?
: A correctional officer asks a BCBA to share behavioral observations about a client without that client's consent. The E item that governs this situation is this.
What is E-4?
: A supervisee witnesses their BCBA supervisor billing for supervision hours that never occurred. Under E-2, the supervisee has a professional obligation to do this, even though it's uncomfortable.
Report the unethical behavior (to the BACB or appropriate authority)
E-3 uses this single word to describe the ongoing standard BCBAs must meet. Not a one-time achievement, but a career-long obligation.
What is competence?
Listing 'board certified psychologist' in your email signature when you only hold a BCBA is the specific E-5 violation known as this.
What is misrepresentation of professional credentials?
Before assuming a Latinx family's reluctance to use a token economy is non-compliance, E-11 requires the BCBA to examine this first.
What is their own personal biases?
A supervisor who cancels sessions, skips data review, and dismisses supervisee input is most directly violating this E item.
What is E-8?
In a correctional facility, administration wants meals withheld as a privilege in a token economy. A BCBA who implements this procedure without pushback has violated this foundational E-1 principle, the one that sits above all others in the Ethics Code.
A BCBA offered an OBM contract in a setting she has never worked in is required by E-12 to check this before accepting.
What is applicable licensure and regulatory requirements?
A BCBA changes client names but keeps age, diagnosis, location, and behavioral topography intact in a public blog post. Under E-4, her de-identification is considered this.
What is insufficient?
When consulting with a domestic violence organization, E-10 requires the BCBA to deliver services in this way.
What is in a culturally responsive manner?
A colleague practices without licensure and has an undisclosed dual relationship with a client's family. The E item that obligates you to act, not stay silent, is this.
What is E-2?