Characteristics of ABA (5 of 7)
Selecting a specific behavior in need of change and not a similar behavior or the individual's account of the behavior
What is Behavioral?
Significant Behavior
What is Applied?
benefit those you work with and potential for damage is eliminated
- benefit client not staff
- seek input on goals
-use peer review when relevant
What is Do no harm?
Behavior analysts have an obligation to the science of behavior and profession of behavior analysis.
What is 6.0 Behavior Analysts' Ethical Responsibility to the Profession of Behavior Analysis?
Detailed procedures and methods for behavior change that contain teachable instructions for implementation and are easily replicable by others
What is Technological?
Observable
What is Behavioral?
Working for greater INDEPENDENCE is part of value system of ABA (shaping, chaining, functional analysis, token economies, prosthetic environments)
What is Respecting Autonomy?
Above all other professional training, behavior analysts uphold and advance the values, ethics, and principles of the profession of behavior analysis.
6.01(a)
Interventions are founded on the core principles of behavior and the importance of creating a discipline for behavior change
What is Conceptually Systematic?
Control
What is analytic?
loyalty, truthfulness, trust, promise-keeping:
- your goal is to be sincere, candid, truthful
-the whole issue of data, and data interpretation, remains objective
What is Being Faithful?
Disseminating Behavior Analysis
6.02
Evaluating behaviors with detailed and consistent measurement in their typical settings
What is Analytic?
Technological
What is universal?
-Our clients are worthy of respect - don't talk down to clients, protect quality living conditions
- stress their personal freedoms - free speech, access to friends, access to community
What is According Dignity?
Obligation to participate in behavior-analytic professional and scientific organizations or activities
What is 6.01(b)?
Improving socially significant behaviors that are affecting the lives of individuals and their families
What is Applied?
Conceptual Systems
What is Jargon?
Make sure benefit is to client (main focus)
- short term negatives vs long term benefits
- benefits to others - teacher, family, community
What is Benefiting Others?
Affirming Principles
What is 6.01 ?