Exam (elaborations)
BCBA Exam: Ethics/129 Questions and Answers/Verified
- Course
- Institution
BCBA Exam: Ethics/129 Questions and Answers/Verified
[Show more]
Seller
Follow
Nurselucy2023
Content preview
BCBA Exam: Ethics/129Questions and Answers/Verified
Ethics - -BEHAVIORS, PRACTICES, and DECISIONS that address 3
fundamental questions that guide how you conduct yourself to help
others improve their physical, social, psychological, familial, or personal
condition
-Question: Why is Ethics Important? - -To further the welfare of the
client
-3 Fundamental Questions of Ethical Practice - -1. What is the right
thing to do?
2. What is worth doing?
3. What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?
-1. What is the right thing to do? - --Considerations related to cultural
practices: what may be acceptable in one culture is not in another
-Differences across time: what may have been acceptable 20 years ago
is not today
-Things to Help You Guide the Decision-Making Process - -1.
Professional Training and Experience
-Your training should influence the methods you use. The decision to opt
for Method A (e.g., differential reinforcement) or Method B (e.g.,
overcorrection) should be based on your clinical training, not your
personal history
-Your training as a behavior analyst should ALWAYS OVERRIDE your
personal history.
2. Personal History
-A personal history is your individual cultural, religious, or social
background. It should not influence your clinical decisions.
-Recognize that your personal history may lead to inappropriate
solutions (e.g., if a person was raised in a family that believed in "spare
the rod, spoil the child", that person may tend to be harsh with children)
-If you recognize that your personal history is impacting your clinical
decision-making, get help from supervisors, colleagues, and research. If
you cannot get the help or change your behavior, excuse yourself from
the case.
3. The Context of Practice
,-Refers to where you practice and the specific nature of job (e.g., at
home, at school, etc.)
-Determines what is legal vs. illegal, ethical vs. unethical
-Question: What is Legal, but Unethical? - -1. Breaking a professional
confidence.
2. Accepting valued heirlooms in lieu of payment.
3. Engaging in consensual sex with a client over the age of 18.
-Question: What is Both Illegal and Unethical? - -1. Misrepresenting
promised services or skills.
2. Stealing a client's belongings.
3. Abusing a client physically, emotionally, financially, socially, or
sexually.
4. Engaging in consensual sexual relations with persons under age 18.
-Question: What are Ethical Codes of Behavior? - --Guidelines that
specify what IS a violation.
-Guidelines for deciding a course of action or conducting professional
duties.
-Guidelines to help to discriminate between legal and ethical distinctions
making us more likely to:
-provide effective services
-maintain sensitivity towards clients
-not break the law or our professional
standards of conduct
-2. What is Worth Doing? - --Addresses the goals and objectives of
practice and forces us to ask the questions:
1. What are we trying to accomplish?
2. How are we trying to accomplish it?
3. Is the objective socially valid?
4. What is the risk-benefit ratio?
-Social Validity - --When the results show meaningful, significant, and
sustainable change.
-When the goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially
acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst, and society.
-Not every skill has social validity (ex. teaching an adult with
developmental disabilities to play with children's coloring books is not
socially valid.
, -2 Ways to Assess Social Validity - -1. Social Comparison:
-Comparison of the performance of clients
exposed to the intervention with an
equivalent or "typically developing" group.
-Limitation: normative data may not be really
relevant for the client's functioning.
2. Subjective Evaluation of Experts:
-Evaluation of the client's performance by
experts who are very familiar with the client.
-Limitation: subjective evaluation of experts
may not tell us about the success of an
intervention.
-3. What Does it Mean to Be a Good Behavior Analyst? - -- Following
professional codes of conduct (BACB)
-Keeping client's welfare in your ideas
-A Good Practitioner is Self-Regulating - -Seeks ways to calibrate
decisions over time to ensure that values, contingencies, and rights and
responsibilities are integrated and an informed combination of these is
considered.
-3 Reasons Why We Abide By Ethics (MHS) - -1. M: Meaningful Change
-To produce meaningful behavior change of
social significance to the client
- Increase the likelihood of appropriate
services being rendered to individuals
2. H: Harm
-To reduce/eliminate harm (e.g., poor
treatments, SIB, etc.)
3. S: Standards
-To conform to the ethical standards of
learned societies and professional
organizations
-Question: What Are Professional Standards? - -(Standards is an
umbrella word for everything.)
-Standards are written guidelines that provide a direction for conducting
the practices associated with an organization.
-BACB - --Certifies individual practitioners
The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
Guaranteed quality through customer reviews
Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.
Quick and easy check-out
You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.
Focus on what matters
Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!
Frequently asked questions
What do I get when I buy this document?
You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.
Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?
Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.
Who am I buying these notes from?
Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller Nurselucy2023. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.
Will I be stuck with a subscription?
No, you only buy these notes for $19.44. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.
Can Stuvia be trusted?
4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)
80467 documents were sold in the last 30 days
Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now
Recently viewed by you
