| 1.0 |
Responsible
Conduct of a Behavior Analyst |
1.1 |
Propriety. The
behavior analyst maintains the high standards of professional
behavior of the professional organization.
Behavior
analysts rely on scientifically and professionally derived knowledge
when making scientific or professional judgments in human service
provision, or when engaging in scholarly or professional endeavors
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| 1.2 |
Competence
and Professional Development. The
behavior analyst remains proficient in professional practice and
the performance of professional functions by reading the appropriate
literature, attending conferences and conventions, participating
in workshops, and/or obtaining Behavior Analyst Certification
Board certification.
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| 1.2.1 |
Competence.
Behavior
analysts provide services, teach, and conduct research only within
the boundaries of their competence, based on their education,
training, supervised experience, or appropriate professional experience.
Behavior
analysts provide services, teach, or conduct research in new areas
or involving new techniques only after first undertaking appropriate
study, training, supervision, and/or consultation from persons
who are competent in those areas or techniques.
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| 1.2.2 |
Professional
Development. Behavior analysts who engage in assessment,
therapy, teaching, research, organizational consulting, or other
professional activities maintain a reasonable level of awareness
of current scientific and professional information in their fields
of activity, and undertake ongoing efforts to maintain competence
in the skills they use.
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| 1.3
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Integrity.
The behavior analyst's behavior conforms to the legal and moral
codes of the social and professional community of which the behavior
analyst is a member.
The
activity of a behavior analyst falls under these Guidelines only
if the activity is part of his or her work-related functions or
the activity is behavior analytic in nature.
If
behavior analysts' ethical responsibilities conflict with law,
behavior analysts make known their commitment to these Guidelines
and take steps to resolve the conflict in a responsible manner
in accordance with law.
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| 1.4 |
Professional and Scientific Relationships.
Behavior analysts provide behavioral diagnostic, therapeutic,
teaching, research, supervisory, consultative, or other behavior
analytic services only in the context of a defined, remunerated
professional or scientific relationship or role.
When
behavior analysts provide assessment, evaluation, treatment, counseling,
supervision, teaching, consultation, research, or other behavior
analytic services to an individual, a group, or an organization,
they use language that is fully understandable to the recipient
of those services. They provide appropriate information prior
to service delivery about the nature of such services and appropriate
information later about results and conclusions.
Where
differences of age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin,
religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, or socioeconomic
status significantly affect behavior analysts' work concerning
particular individuals or groups, behavior analysts obtain the
training, experience, consultation, or supervision necessary to
ensure the competence of their services, or they make appropriate
referrals.
In
their work-related activities, behavior analysts do not engage
in discrimination against individuals or groups based on age,
gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation,
disability, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law.
Behavior
analysts do not knowingly engage in behavior that is harassing
or demeaning to persons with whom they interact in their work
based on factors such as those persons' age, gender, race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language,
or socioeconomic, status in accordance with law.
Behavior
analysts recognize that their personal problems and conflicts
may interfere with their effectiveness. Behavior analysts refrain
from providing services when their personal circumstances may
compromise delivering services to the best of their abilities.
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| 1.4.1
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Dual
Relationships. In many communities and situations, it
may not be feasible or reasonable for behavior analysts to avoid
social or other nonprofessional contacts with persons such as
clients, students, supervisees, or research participants. Behavior
analysts must always be sensitive to the potential harmful effects
of other contacts on their work and on those persons with whom
they deal.
A
behavior analyst refrains from entering into or promising a personal,
scientific, professional, financial, or other relationship with
any such person if it appears likely that such a relationship
reasonably might impair the behavior analyst's objectivity or
otherwise interfere with the behavior analyst's ability to effectively
perform his or her functions as a behavior analyst, or might harm
or exploit the other party.
If
a behavior analyst finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially
harmful multiple relationship has arisen (i.e., one in which the
reasonable possibility of conflict of interest or undue influence
is present), the behavior analyst attempts to resolve it with
due regard for the best interests of the affected person and maximal
compliance with these Guidelines.
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| 1.4.2
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Exploitative
Relationships.
Behavior analysts do not exploit persons over whom they have supervisory,
evaluative, or other authority such as students, supervisees,
employees, research participants, and clients.
Behavior
analysts do not engage in sexual relationships with clients, students,
or supervisees in training over whom the behavior analyst has
evaluative or direct authority, because such relationships easily
impair judgment or become exploitative.
Behavior
analysts are cautioned against bartering with clients because
it is often:
- Clinically
contraindicated, and
- Prone
to formation of an exploitative relationship.
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| 2.0
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The
Behavior Analyst's Responsibility to Clients |
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The
term client as used here is broadly applicable to whomever the behavior
analyst provides services whether an individual person (service
recipient), parent or guardian of a service recipient, an institutional
representative, a public or private agency, a firm or corporation.
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| 2.1
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Responsibility.
The
behavior analyst's responsibility is to all parties affected by
behavioral services.
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| 2.1.1
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Consultation.
Behavior
analysts arrange for appropriate consultations and referrals based
principally on the best interests of their clients, with appropriate
consent, and subject to other relevant considerations, including
applicable law and contractual obligations.
When
indicated and professionally appropriate, behavior analysts cooperate
with other professionals in order to serve their clients effectively
and appropriately. Behavior analysts recognize that other professions
have ethical codes that may differ in their specific requirements
from of these Guidelines.
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| 2.1.2
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Third-Party
Requests for Services. When
a behavior analyst agrees to provide services to a person or entity
at the request of a third party, the behavior analyst clarifies
to the extent feasible, at the outset of the service, the nature
of the relationship with each party. This clarification includes
the role of the behavior analyst (such as therapist, organizational
consultant, or expert witness), the probable uses of the services
provided or the information obtained, and the fact that there
may be limits to confidentiality.
If
there is a foreseeable risk of the behavior analyst being called
upon to perform conflicting roles because of the involvement of
a third party, the behavior analyst clarifies the nature and direction
of his or her responsibilities, keeps all parties appropriately
informed as matters develop, and resolves the situation in accordance
with these Guidelines.
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| 2.2
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Rights
and Prerogatives of Clients. The
behavior analyst supports individual rights under the law.
The
client must be provided on request an accurate, current set of
the behavior analyst's credentials.
Permission
for electronic recording of interviews is secured from clients
and all other settings. Consent for different uses must be obtained
specifically and separately.
Clients
must be informed of their rights, and about procedures to complain
about professional practices of the behavior analyst.
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| 2.2.1
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Maintaining
Confidentiality. Behavior
analysts have a primary obligation and take reasonable precautions
to respect the confidentiality of those with whom they work or
consult, recognizing that confidentiality may be established by
law, institutional rules, or professional or scientific relationships.
Clients
have a right to confidentiality. Unless it is not feasible or
is contraindicated, the discussion of confidentiality occurs at
the outset of the relationship and thereafter as new circumstances
may warrant.
In
order to minimize intrusions on privacy, behavior analysts include
only information germane to the purpose for which the communication
is made in written and oral reports, consultations, and the like.
Behavior
analysts discuss confidential information obtained in clinical
or consulting relationships, or evaluative data concerning patients,
individual or organizational clients, students, research participants,
supervisees, and employees, only for appropriate scientific or
professional purposes and only with persons clearly concerned
with such matters.
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| 2.2.2
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Maintenance
of Records. Behavior
analysts maintain appropriate confidentiality in creating, storing,
accessing, transferring, and disposing of records under their
control, whether these are written, automated, or in any other
medium. Behavior analysts maintain and dispose of records in accordance
with applicable federal or state law or regulation, and corporate
policy, and in a manner that permits compliance with the requirements
of these Guidelines.
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| 2.2.3
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Disclosures.
Behavior
analysts disclose confidential information without the consent
of the individual only as mandated by law, or where permitted
by law for a valid purpose, such as
- To
provide needed professional services to the individual or organizational
client
- To
obtain appropriate professional consultations
- To
protect the client or others from harm, or
- To
obtain payment for services, in which instance disclosure is
limited to the minimum that is necessary to achieve the purpose.
Behavior
analysts also may disclose confidential information with the appropriate
consent of the individual or organizational client (or of another
legally authorized person on behalf of the client), unless prohibited
by law.
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| 2.3
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Treatment
Efficacy. The behavior analyst always has the responsibility
to recommend scientifically supported most effective treatment
procedures. Effective treatment procedures have been validated
as having both long term and short term benefits to clients and
society.
Clients
have a right to effective treatment (i.e., based on the research
literature and adapted to the individual client).
Behavior
analysts are responsible for review and appraisal of likely effects
of all alternative treatments, including those provided by other
disciplines and no intervention.
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| 2.4
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Documentation
of Professional and Scientific Work. Behavior
analysts appropriately document their professional and scientific
work in order to facilitate provision of services later by them
or by other professionals, to ensure accountability, and to meet
other requirements of institutions or the law.
When
behavior analysts have reason to believe that records of their
professional services will be used in legal proceedings involving
recipients of or participants in their work, they have a responsibility
to create and maintain documentation in the kind of detail and
quality that would be consistent with reasonable scrutiny in an
adjudicative forum.
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| 2.5 |
Records
and Data. Behavior
analysts create, maintain, disseminate, store, retain, and dispose
of records and data relating to their research, practice, and other
work in accordance with applicable federal and state laws or regulations
and corporate policy and in a manner that permits compliance with
the requirements of these Guidelines.
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| 2.6 |
Fees
and Financial Arrangements. As
early as is feasible in a professional or scientific relationship,
the behavior analyst and the client or other appropriate recipient
of behavior analytic services reach an agreement specifying the
compensation and the billing arrangements.
Behavior
analysts' fee practices are consistent with law and behavior analysts
do not misrepresent their fees. If limitations to services can
be anticipated because of limitations in financing, this is discussed
with the patient, client, or other appropriate recipient of services
as early as is feasible.
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| 2.7 |
Accuracy
in Reports to Payors. In
their reports to payors for services or sources of research, project,
or program funding, behavior analysts accurately state the nature
of the research or service provided, the fees or charges, and where
applicable, the identity of the provider, the findings, and other
required descriptive data.
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| 2.8 |
Referrals
and Fees. When
a behavior analyst pays, receives payment from, or divides fees
with another professional other than in an employer-employee relationship,
the payment for any referral shall be disclosed to the client.
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| 2.9 |
Interrupting
or Terminating Services.
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| 2.9.1 |
Interrupting
Services. Behavior
analysts make reasonable efforts to plan for facilitating care
in the event that behavior analytic services are interrupted by
factors such as the behavior analyst's illness, impending death,
unavailability, or relocation or by the client's relocation or
financial limitations.
When
entering into employment or contractual relationships, behavior
analysts provide for orderly and appropriate resolution of responsibility
for client care in the event that the employment or contractual
relationship ends, with paramount consideration given to the welfare
of the client.
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| 2.9.2 |
Terminating
Services. Behavior
analysts do not abandon clients. Behavior analysts terminate a
professional relationship when it becomes reasonably clear that
the client no longer needs the service, is not benefiting, or
is being harmed by continued service.
Prior
to termination for whatever reason, except where precluded by
the client's conduct, the behavior analyst discusses the client's
views and needs, provides appropriate pre-termination services,
suggests alternative service providers as appropriate, and takes
other reasonable steps to facilitate transfer of responsibility
to another provider if the client needs one immediately.
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| 3.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst's Pre-Intervention Behavior. |
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Behavior analysts who develop, administer, score, interpret, or
use behavioral assessment techniques, interviews, or instruments
do so in a manner and for purposes that are appropriate in light
of the research on or evidence of the usefulness and proper application
of the techniques.
Behavior
analysts' assessments, recommendations, reports, and evaluative
statements are based on information and techniques sufficient
to provide appropriate substantiation for their findings.
Behavior
analysts refrain from misuse of assessment techniques, interventions,
results, and interpretations and take reasonable steps to prevent
others from misusing the information these techniques provide.
Behavior
analysts recognize limits to the certainty with which judgments
or predictions can be made about individuals.
Behavior
analysts do not promote the use of behavioral assessment techniques
by unqualified persons, i.e., those who are unsupervised by experienced
professionals and have not demonstrated valid and reliable assessment
skills.
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| 3.1 |
If
environmental conditions preclude implementation of a behavior analytic
program, the
behavior analyst recommends that other professional assistance (i.e.,
assessment, consultation or therapeutic intervention by other professionals)
be sought.
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| 3.2 |
If
environmental conditions hamper implementation of the behavior analytic
program,
the behavior analyst seeks to eliminate the environmental constraints,
or identifies in writing the obstacles to doing so.
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| 3.3 |
The
behavior analyst conducts a functional assessment,
as defined below, to provide the necessary data to develop an
effective behavior change program.
Functional
assessment includes a variety of systematic information-gathering
activities regarding factors influencing the occurrence of a behavior
(e.g., antecedents, consequences, setting events, or establishing
operations) including interview, direct observation, and experimental
analysis.
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| 3.4 |
The
behavior analyst accepts as clients only those individuals or entities
(agencies, firms, etc.) whose behavior problems or requested service
are commensurate with the behavior analyst's education, training,
and experience. In lieu of these conditions, the behavior analyst
must function under the supervision of or in consultation with a
behavior analyst whose credentials permit working with such behavior
problems or services.
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| 3.5 |
The
behavior analyst obtains the written consent of the client
or client-surrogate before obtaining or disclosing client records
from or to other sources.
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| 3.6 |
The
behavior analyst describes, preferably in writing,
the objectives of the behavior change program to the client or
client-surrogate (see below) before attempting to implement the
program.
As
used here, client-surrogate refers to someone legally empowered
to make decisions for the person(s) whose behavior the program
is intended to change; examples of client-surrogates include parents
of minors, guardians, legally designated representatives.
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| 3.7 |
The
behavior analyst must obtain the client's or client-surrogate's
approval
in writing of the behavior assessment procedures before implementing
them.
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| 3.8 |
The
behavior analyst describes to the client
or client-surrogate the environmental conditions that are necessary
for the program to be effective.
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| 3.9 |
Explaining
Assessment Results.
Unless the nature of the relationship is clearly explained to the
person being assessed in advance and precludes provision of an explanation
of results (such as in some organizational consulting, some screenings,
and forensic evaluations), behavior analysts ensure that an explanation
of the results is provided using language that is reasonably understandable
to the person assessed or to another legally authorized person on
behalf of the client. Regardless of whether the interpretation is
done by the behavior analyst, by assistants, others, behavior analysts
take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate explanations of
results are given.
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| 4.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst and the Individual Behavior Change Program.
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4.1 |
The behavior analyst designs programs
that are based on behavior analytic principles and procedures, including
assessments of effects of other intervention methods, involves the
client or the client-surrogate in the planning of such programs,
obtains the consent of the client, and respects the right of the
client to terminate services at any time.
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| 4.2 |
The
behavior analyst must obtain the client's
or client-surrogate's approval in writing of the behavior intervention
procedures before implementing them.
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| 4.3 |
The
behavior analyst recommends reinforcement
rather than punishment whenever possible. If punishment procedures
are necessary, the behavior analyst always includes reinforcement
procedures for alternative behavior in the program.
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| 4.4 |
The
behavior analyst minimizes the use
of items as potential reinforcers that may be harmful to the long-term
health of the client or participant (e.g., cigarettes, or sugar
or fat-laden food), or that may require undesirably marked deprivation
procedures as establishing operations.
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| 4.5 |
The
behavior analyst collects data,
or asks the client, client-surrogate, or designated others to collect
data needed to assess progress within the program.
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4.6 |
The
behavior analyst modifies the program
on the basis of data.
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| 4.7 |
The
behavior analyst explains the program
modifications and the reasons for the modifications to the client
or client-surrogate and obtains consent to implement the modifications.
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| 4.8 |
The
behavior analyst reviews and appraises
the restrictiveness of alternative interventions and always recommends
the least restrictive procedures likely to be effective in dealing
with a behavior problem.
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| 4.9 |
The
behavior analyst establishes understandable
and objective (i.e., measurable) criteria for the termination of
the program and describes them to the client or client-surrogate.
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| 4.10 |
The
behavior analyst terminates the relationship
with the client when the established criteria for termination are
attained, as in when a series of planned or revised intervention
goals has been completed.
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| 5.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst as Teacher and/or Supervisor. |
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Behavior analysts delegate to their employees, supervisees, and
research assistants only those responsibilities that such persons
can reasonably be expected to perform competently, on the basis
of their education, training, or experience, either independently
or with the level of supervision being provided. Behavior analysts
provide proper training and supervision to their employees or
supervisees and take reasonable steps to see that such persons
perform services responsibly, competently, and ethically. If institutional
policies, procedures, or practices prevent fulfillment of this
obligation, behavior analysts attempt to modify their role or
to correct the situation to the extent feasible.
Behavior
analysts who are responsible for education and training programs
seek to ensure that the programs are competently designed, provide
the proper experiences, and meet the requirements for licensure,
certification, or other goals for which claims are made by the
program.
Behavior
analysts do not teach the use of techniques or procedures that
require specialized training, licensure, or expertise in other
disciplines to individuals who lack the prerequisite training,
legal scope of practice, or expertise, except as these techniques
may be used in behavioral evaluation of the effects of various
treatments, interventions, therapies, or educational methods.
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| 5.1 |
The
behavior analyst provides a clear description
of the objectives of a course, preferably in writing, at the beginning
of the course.
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| 5.2 |
The
behavior analyst provides a clear description
of the demands of the course (e.g., papers, exams, projects) at
the beginning of the course.
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| 5.3 |
The
behavior analyst provides a clear description
of the requirements for the evaluation of student performance at
the beginning of the course.
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| 5.4 |
The
behavior analyst provides feedback
regarding the performance of a student or supervisee as frequently
as the conditions allow.
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| 5.5 |
The
behavior analyst utilizes as many principles
of behavior analysis in teaching a course as the material, conditions,
and academic policies allow.
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| 5.6 |
The
behavior analyst's behavioral requirements
of a supervisee must be in the behavioral repertoire of the supervisee.
If the behavior required is not in the supervisee's repertoire,
the behavior analyst attempts to provide the conditions for the
acquisition of the required behavior, and refers the supervisee
for remedial skill development services, or provides them with such
services, permitting them to meet at least minimal behavioral performance
requirements.
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5.7 |
The
behavior analyst provides feedback
to the supervisee in a way that increases the probability that the
supervisee will benefit from the feedback.
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| 5.8 |
The
behavior analyst uses positive reinforcement as frequently
as the behavior of the supervisee and the environmental conditions
allow.
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| 5.9 |
Principal
authorship and Other Publication Credits.
Principal authorship and other publication credits accurately reflect
the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals
involved, regardless of their relative status. Mere possession of
an institutional position, such as Department Chair, does not justify
authorship credit. Minor contributions to the research or to the
writing for publications are appropriately acknowledged, such as
in footnotes or in an introductory statement. Further, these Guidelines
recognize and support the ethical requirements for authorship and
publication practices contained in the ethical code of the American
Psychological Association.
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| 6.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst and the Workplace |
6.1 |
The behavior analyst adheres to job commitments
made to the employing organization.
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| 6.2 |
The
behavior analyst assesses
the behavior-environment interactions of the employees before designing
behavior analytic programs.
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| 6.3 |
The
behavior analyst implements or consults
on behavior management programs for which the behavior analyst has
been adequately prepared.
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| 6.4 |
The
behavior analyst develops interventions
that benefit the employees as well as management.
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| 6.5 |
The
behavior analyst develops interventions
that enhance the health and well being of the employees.
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| 6.6 |
If
the demands of an organization
with which behavior analysts are affiliated conflict with these
Guidelines, behavior analysts clarify the nature of the conflict,
make known their commitment to these Guidelines, and to the extent
feasible, seek to resolve the conflict in a way that permits the
fullest adherence to these Guidelines.
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| 7.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst and Research Behavior analysts |
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design,
conduct, and report research in accordance with recognized standards
of scientific competence and ethical research. Behavior analysts
conduct research with human and non-human research participants
according to the proposal approved by the local human research
committee, and Institutional Review Board.
Behavior
analysts plan their research so as to minimize the possibility
that results will be misleading.
Behavior
analysts conduct research competently and with due concern for
the dignity and welfare of the participants. Researchers and assistants
are permitted to perform only those tasks for which they are appropriately
trained and prepared.
Behavior
analysts are responsible for the ethical conduct of research conducted
by them or by others under their supervision or control.
Behavior
analysts conducting applied research conjointly with provision
of clinical or human services obtain required external reviews
of proposed clinical research and observe requirements for both
intervention and research involvement by client-participants.
In
planning research, behavior analysts consider its ethical acceptability
under these Guidelines. If an ethical issue is unclear, behavior
analysts seek to resolve the issue through consultation with institutional
review boards, animal care and use committees, peer consultations,
or other proper mechanisms.
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| 7.1 |
Scholarship
and Research.
The behavior analyst engaged in study and research is guided by
the conventions of the science of behavior including the emphasis
on the analysis of individual behavior and strives to model appropriate
applications in professional life.
Behavior
analysts take reasonable steps to avoid harming their clients,
research participants, students, and others with whom they work,
and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable.
Harm is defined here as negative effects or side effects of behavior
analysis that outweigh positive effects in the particular instance,
and that are behavioral or physical and directly observable.
Because
behavior analysts' scientific and professional judgments and actions
affect the lives of others, they are alert to and guard against
personal, financial, social, organizational, or political factors
that might lead to misuse of their influence.
Behavior
analysts do not participate in activities in which it appears
likely that their skills or data will be misused by others, unless
corrective mechanisms, i.e., peer or external professional or
independent review, are available.
Behavior
analysts do not exaggerate claims for effectiveness of particular
procedures or of behavior analysis in general.
If
behavior analysts learn of misuse or misrepresentation of their
individual work products, they take reasonable and feasible steps
to correct or minimize the misuse or misrepresentation.
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| 7.2 |
Using
Confidential Information
for Didactic or Instructive Purposes. Behavior analysts do not
disclose in their writings, lectures, or other public media, confidential,
personally identifiable information concerning their individual
or organizational clients, students, research participants, or
other recipients of their services that they obtained during the
course of their work, unless the person or organization has consented
in writing or unless there is other ethical or legal authorization
for doing so.
Ordinarily,
in such scientific and professional presentations, behavior analysts
disguise confidential information concerning such persons or organizations
so that they are not individually identifiable to others and so
that discussions do not cause harm to participants who might identify
themselves.
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| 7.3 |
Conformance
with Laws and Regulations.
Behavior analysts plan and conduct research in a manner consistent
with federal and state law and regulations, as well as professional
standards governing the conduct of research, and particularly those
standards governing research with human participants and animal
subjects.
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| 7.4 |
Informed
Consent.
Using language that is reasonably understandable to participants,
behavior analysts inform participants of the nature of the research;
they inform participants that they are free to participate or
to decline to participate or to withdraw from the research; they
explain the foreseeable consequences of declining or withdrawing;
they inform participants of significant factors that may be expected
to influence their willingness to participate (such as risks,
discomfort, adverse effects, or limitations on confidentiality,
except as provided in Standard 7.5 below); and they explain other
aspects about which the prospective participants inquire.
For
persons who are legally incapable of giving informed consent,
behavior analysts nevertheless:
- Provide
an appropriate explanation,
-
Discontinue research if the person gives clear signs of unwillingness
to continue participation, and
-
Obtain appropriate permission from a legally authorized person,
if such substitute consent is permitted by law.
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| 7.5 |
Deception
in Research.
Behavior analysts do not conduct a study involving deception unless
they have determined that the use of deceptive techniques is justified
by the study's prospective scientific, educational, or applied
value and that equally effective alternative procedures that do
not use deception are not feasible.
Behavior
analysts never deceive research participants about significant
aspects that would affect their willingness to participate, such
as physical risks, discomfort, or unpleasant emotional experiences.
Any
other deception that is an integral feature of the design and
conduct of an experiment must be explained to participants as
early as is feasible, preferably at the conclusion of their participation,
but no later than at the conclusion of the research.
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| 7.6 |
Behavior
analysts inform research participants
of their anticipated sharing or further use of personally identifiable
research data and of the possibility of unanticipated future uses.
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| 7.7 |
In
conducting research, behavior analysts interfere
with the participants or milieu from which data are collected only
in a manner that is warranted by an appropriate research design
and that is consistent with behavior analysts' roles as scientific
investigators.
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| 7.8 |
Behavior
analysts take reasonable measures
to honor all commitments they have made to research participants.
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| 7.9 |
In
presenting research, the behavior analyst ensures
participant anonymity unless specifically waived by the participant
or surrogate.
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| 7.10 |
The
behavior analyst informs the participant
that withdrawal from the research may occur at any time without
penalty except as stipulated in advance, as in fees contingent
upon completing a project.
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| 7.11 |
The
behavior analyst informs the participant
that debriefing will occur on conclusion of the participant's involvement
in the research.
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| 7.12 |
The
behavior analyst answers all questions
of the participant about the research that are consistent with being
able to conduct the research.
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| 7.13 |
The
behavior analyst must obtain the written consent
of the participant or surrogate before beginning the research.
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| 7.14 |
If
the behavior analyst recruits participants
from classes and the participants are provided additional credit
for participating in the research, nonparticipating students must
be provided alternative activities that generate comparable credit.
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| 7.15 |
In
presenting research, the behavior analyst
acknowledges the contributions of others who contributed to the
conduct of the research by including them as co-authors or footnoting
their contributions.
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| 7.16 |
The
behavior analyst who pays participants
for research involvement or uses money as a reinforcer must obtain
Institutional Review Board or Human Rights Committee approval
of this practice and conform to any special requirements that
may be established in the process of approval.
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| 7.17 |
The
behavior analyst who withholds
part of the money earned by the participant until the participant
has completed their research involvement must inform the participant
of this condition prior to beginning the experiment.
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7.18 |
The
behavior analyst who serves
on grant review panels avoids conducting any research described
in grant proposals that the behavior analyst reviewed, except as
replications fully crediting the prior researchers.
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| 7.19 |
Research
with Animals.
Behavior analysts who conduct research involving animals treat them
humanely and are in compliance with the Federal Animal Welfare Act.
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| 8.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst's Ethical Responsibility to the Field of Behavior
Analysis . |
8.1 |
Affirmation of Principles. The
behavior analyst upholds and advances the values, ethics, principles,
and mission of the field of behavior analysis; participation in
both state and national or international behavior analysis organizations
is strongly encouraged.
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| 8.2 |
Dissemination
of Behavior Analysis.
The behavior analyst assists the profession in making behavior analysis
methodology available to the general public.
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| 8.3 |
Familiarity
with these Guidelines.
Behavior analysts have an obligation to be familiar with these Guidelines,
other applicable ethics codes, and their application to behavior
analysts' work. Lack of awareness or misunderstanding of an conduct
standard is not itself a defense to a charge of unethical conduct.
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| 8.4 |
Discouraging
Misrepresentation by Non-Certified Individuals.
Behavior analysts discourage non-certified practitioners from misrepresenting
that they are certified.
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| 9.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst's Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues |
9.1 |
When behavior analysts believe
that there may have been an ethical violation by another behavior
analyst, they attempt to resolve the issue by bringing it to the
attention of that individual if an informal resolution appears appropriate
and the intervention does not violate any confidentiality rights
that may be involved.
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| 9.2 |
Behavior
analysts do not fabricate data
or falsify results in their publications. If behavior analysts discover
significant errors in their published data, they take reasonable
steps to correct such errors in a correction, retraction, erratum,
or other appropriate publication means.
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| 9.3 |
Behavior
analysts do not present
portions or elements of another's work or data as their own, even
if the other work or data source is cited occasionally, nor do
they omit findings that might alter others’ interpretations of
their work or behavior analysis in general.
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| 9.4 |
Behavior
analysts do not publish, as original data,
data that have been previously published. This does not preclude
republishing data when they are accompanied by proper acknowledgment.
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| 9.5
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After
research results are published,
behavior analysts do not withhold the data on which their conclusions
are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify
the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use
such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality
of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning
proprietary data preclude their release.
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| 10.0 |
The
Behavior Analyst's Ethical Responsibility to Society. |
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The
behavior analyst promotes the general welfare of society through
the application of the principles of behavior.
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| 10.1 |
The
behavior analyst should promote the application
of behavior principles in society by presenting a behavioral alternative
to other procedures or methods.
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| 10.2 |
The
behavior analyst should promote the analysis
of behavior per se as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry.
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| 10.3 |
Public
Statements.
Behavior analysts comply with these Guidelines in public statements
relating to their professional services, products, or publications
or to the field of behavior analysis.
Public
statements include but are not limited to paid or unpaid advertising,
brochures, printed matter, directory listings, personal resumes
or curriculum vitae, interviews or comments for use in media,
statements in legal proceedings, lectures and public oral presentations,
and published materials.
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| 10.4 |
Statements
by Others.
Behavior analysts who engage others to create or place public
statements that promote their professional practice, products,
or activities retain professional responsibility for such statements.
Behavior
analysts make reasonable efforts to prevent others whom they do
not control (such as employers, publishers, sponsors, organizational
clients, and representatives of the print or broadcast media)
from making deceptive statements concerning behavior analysts'
practices or professional or scientific activities.
If
behavior analysts learn of deceptive statements about their work
made by others, behavior analysts make reasonable efforts to correct
such statements.
A
paid advertisement relating to the behavior analyst's activities
must be identified as such, unless it is already apparent from
the context.
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| 10.5 |
Avoidance
of False or Deceptive Statements.
Behavior analysts do not make public statements that are false,
deceptive, misleading, or fraudulent, either because of what they
state, convey, or suggest or because of what they omit, concerning
their research, practice, or other work activities or those of persons
or organizations with which they are affiliated. Behavior analysts
claim as credentials for their behavioral work, only degrees that
were primarily or exclusively behavior analytic in content.
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| 10.6 |
Media
Presentations.
When behavior analysts provide advice or comment by means of public
lectures, demonstrations, radio or television programs, prerecorded
tapes, printed articles, mailed material, or other media, they
take reasonable precautions to ensure that:
- The
statements are based on appropriate behavior analytic literature
and practice,
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The statements are otherwise consistent with these Guidelines,
and
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The recipients of the information are not encouraged to infer
that a relationship has been established with them personally.
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| 10.7 |
Testimonials.
Behavior analysts do not solicit testimonials from current clients
or patients or other persons who because of their particular circumstances
are vulnerable to undue influence.
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| 10.8 |
In-Person
Solicitation.
Behavior analysts do not engage, directly or through agents, in
uninvited in-person solicitation of business from actual or potential
users of services who because of their particular circumstances
are vulnerable to undue influence, except that organizational behavior
management or performance management services may be marketed to
corporate entities regardless of their projected financial position.
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Analyst," "BCBA," "Board Certified Associate Behavior
Analyst," and "BCABA" are owned by the Behavior Analyst
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