RBT Supervision Basics
This percentage of an RBT’s monthly ABA service hours must be supervised.
What is 5%?
The standard BCBA supervised fieldwork pathway requires this many total hours.
What is 2,000 hours?
Completion of the 8-hour supervision training can be confirmed here.
What is the BACB website?
The frequency at which BCBAs must recertify.
What is every two years?
What is 7 years?
RBTs must receive at least this many supervision contacts per month.
What is two contacts per month?
For the traditional fieldwork, this number of contacts are required per supervisory period.
What is 4 contacts?
These CEUs must be completed by BCBAs who supervise during each cycle.
What are supervision CEUs?
Before supervision begins, BCBA trainees must have this signed agreement in place.
What is a supervision contract?
This person is ultimately responsible for determining if supervision activities count toward a trainee's hours.
Who is the supervisor?
This type of supervision contact must occur at least once per month and involves observing the RBT with a client.
What is a live observation?
Trainees need to have started THIS to begin accumulating hours toward certification.
What is required BCBA coursework?
If a BCBA wants to supervise trainees immediately after they obtained certification, they must be supervised by a more experienced BCBA for this length of time.
What is 1 year?
To maintain certification, BCBAs are required to get this many continuing education credits per cycle.
What is 32?
For BCBA trainees, these activities must represent at least 60% of total hours.
What are unrestricted activities?
As of 2026, RBTs are required to have this many hours of professional development to maintain certification.
What is 12 hours?
This fieldwork pathway requires only 1,500 hours but involves more frequent supervision contacts.
What is concentrated supervised fieldwork?
According to the BACB, a person with these credentials are considered a supervisee.
What is an RBT and BCaBA?
In addition to general CEUs, the BACB specifies these two types of CEUs that must be obtained each cycle.
What is ethics and supervision?
Certain violations and issues like being arrested or receiving jail time requires this action.
What is self-reporting to the BACB?
To start using their RBT certification, RBTs need to be listed here.
What is the supervisors BACB account?
As of 2026, Standard fieldwork supervision hours are ______ as much is concentrated supervision hours.
What is half?
According to the BACB, this type of person is considered a trainee?
What is a person pursuing certification in behavior analysis?
These are the three potential actions that can occur if a BCBA fails to meet maintenance and supervision requirements outlined in the BCBA Handbook.
What is certification lapse, suspension, or revocation?
Being trained in how to use your organizations data collection system, qualifies as this type of activity.
What is neither restricted or unrestricted hours?