Acceptable Continuing Education

Continuing Education Links at bottom of page including provider applications, requirements, & applications; a roster of providers; and CE event complaint procedures.

For BCBA certificants, proof of completion of 36 hours of acceptable continuing education is required at recertification.

New Continuing Education Requirement - Effective July 1, 2008, certificants recertifying must present 3 continuing education hours in ethics and professional behavior.

“Acceptable Continuing Education” means instruction provided under the following:

Completion of graduate level college or university courses, for BCBAs, or undergraduate or graduate, college or university courses, for BCaBAs. Course content must be entirely behavior analytic. Courses must be from any of the following:

1. A United States or Canadian institution of higher education fully or provisionally accredited by a regional, state, provincial or national accrediting body; or
2. An institution of higher education located outside the United States or Canada that, at the time the applicant was enrolled and at the time the applicant completed the course maintained a standard of training equivalent to the standards of training of those institutions accredited in the United States.

One academic semester credit is equivalent to 15 hours of continuing education and one academic quarter credit is equivalent to 10 hours of continuing education. Any portion or all of the required number of hours of continuing education may be applied from this category during any three-year certification period.

Type 2:
Completion of events sponsored by providers approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Any portion or all of the total required number of hours of continuing education may be applied from this category during any three-year certification period.

Type 3:
Completion or instruction of a seminar, colloquium, presentation, conference event, workshop or symposium not approved by the BACB, or engaging in supervision activities, only if they relate directly to the practice of behavior analysis. A maximum of 25 percent of the total required number of hours of continuing education may be applied from this category during any three-year certification period.

Type 4:
Instruction by the applicant of a category 1 or 2 continuing education events, on a one-time basis for each event, provided that the applicant was present for the complete event. A maximum of 25 percent of the total required number of hours of continuing education may come from this category during any three-year certification period.

Type 5:
Credentialing events or activities initiated and pre-approved for CEU by the BACB. A maximum of 25 percent of the total required number of hours of continuing education may come from this category during any three-year certification period.

Type 6:
Passing, during the third year of the applicant’s certification period, the BACB certification examination appropriate to the type of certification being renewed. BCBAs may only take the BCBA examination; BCaBAs may only take the BCaBA examination for continuing education credit. Passage of the appropriate examination shall satisfy the recertification continuing education requirement for any three-year certification period. (Certificants do not have to re-qualify under current standards, they should apply for examination under the "retake" option and pay that fee)

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