Ethics Basics
This organization publishes the Ethics Code that behavior analysts must follow.
What is the BACB?
You are at your maximum supervisory volume and should provide this response when asked to take on another trainee?
What is to decline or document the threshold and communicate with relevant parties (4.03)?
Client information must be protected unless this is provided.
What is informed consent?
This should guide your selection of assessment tools.
What is conceptual consistency with behavioral principles and scientific evidence (2.13)?
Behavior analysts must communicate truthfully and accurately with these groups.
What are clients and stakeholders?
The core values that all behavior analysts should strive to embody and serve as the foundation for the ethics standards.
What are the four core principles?
A supervisee struggles with cultural responsiveness. The analyst's ethical obligation is to....
What is to provide individualized training and address diversity topics (1.07, 4.07)?
Disclosing confidential client information without consent occurs when...
What is when required by law, to prevent harm, or as allowed by contract (2.04, 3.10)?
Interventions must be based on this type of evidence.
What is scientific research?
Accepting gifts that could influence services violates this standard.
What is accepting gifts?
Ethical standards that guide professional behavior across situations are called this.
What are ethics codes?
You plan to delegate a new assessment to a trainee and first confirm [blank]?
What is the trainee’s competence and compliance with requirements (4.09)?
Discussing client details in public spaces violates this ethical requirement.
What is protecting privacy?
It can be ethical to use restrictive or punishment-based procedures when this has occurred.
What is only after less intrusive means have failed and with required review (2.15)?
Public statements about ABA must be this.
What is accurate and evidence-based?
Acting to benefit clients and do no harm reflects this ethical principle.
What is beneficence?
The process to evaluate your own effectiveness as a supervisor.
What is through continual self-evaluation, feedback, and outcome data (4.10)?
Behavior analysts must store client records in this type of manner.
What is secure storage?
A client’s medical needs may affect behavior. Your responsibility is to...
What is to refer to a medical professional and follow up (2.12)?
Responding appropriately to feedback and concerns demonstrates this professional trait.
What is professionalism?
This ethics concept requires behavior analysts to work only within their training and experience.
What is scope of competence?
This documentation should clearly define roles, expectations, and responsibilities in supervision.
What is a supervision contract?
You discover a breach of confidential data. Your immediate obligation is to...
What is to take steps to mitigate harm, notify affected parties, and document actions (2.03, 3.10)?
You are asked to implement a nonbehavioral service and need to ensure...
What is appropriate credentials, clear distinction from behavioral services, and disclosure (2.01, 5.06)?
Failing to disclose major breaches of professional ethics may result in this outcome for a behavior analyst.
What is an ethical violation?