ETHICS RESOURCES

Ethics Toolkits

The BACB’s ethics toolkits offer important information focused on helping individuals and organizations provide high-quality services in compliance with BACB ethics requirements. These easy-to-use resources can support certificants as they design needed systems and processes or evaluate existing ones. We encourage certificants to use and share these toolkits as they practice, supervise, train, and teach courses.

Continuity of Services

The Continuity of Services toolkit offers considerations for designing and evaluating processes that help manage service interruptions, transitions, and discontinuations—and don’t forget to check out the interactive resources at the end of the toolkit that can be shared, modified, and used in your practice.

The Continuity of Services: Reminders for RBTs document is a companion to the Continuity of Services toolkit that provides additional guidance for RBTs as they navigate changes or interruptions in their ability to provide services.

Ethics-Related Resources

Resources from the BACB

The BACB is committed to providing certificants and others with resources related to ethics. To that end we have complied all the ethics related articles from the BACB Newsletters published over the years.

Ethics-Related Newsletter Articles

BACB newsletters provide clarification and information on time-sensitive topics and happening for the BACB and certificants. Due to their importance, email notifications are sent to everyone in the BACB’s database when a new issue of the newsletter is published. If you would like to receive newsletters and haven’t yet created an account with the BACB, visit BACB Accounts to do so. If you wish to receive newsletters only, use the “Email Preferences” area of your account to opt-out of other types of communication.

Newsletter Year	Newsletter Month	Article Page #	Article Topic
2023	September	5	Free Speech and BACB Ethics Requirements
2023	September	6	Self-Reporting Reminder
2023	July	1	Parents Serving as RBTs for Their Children
2023	July	3	RBTs and BCaBAs as Company Owners
2023	July	4	Limits of Limited Liability Companies
2023	March	3	Self-Reporting to the Ethics Department
2023	March	4	How the Ethics Department Processes Notices of Alleged Violation
2023	March	5	How the BACB Publishes Disciplinary Consequences
2023	March	6	RBTs Quitting Without Sufficient Notice
2023	March	6	Considerations for Submitting Notices Against BACB Certificants as Claims Reviewers
2023	March	7	Keeping Track of Periodic Changes to Ethics Codes

Newsletter Year	Newsletter Month	Article Page #	Article Topic
2021	July	1	Introducing the New RBT Ethics Code (2.0)
2020	December	1	Introducing the New Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts
2020	August	5	Taking Supervision Seriously – Common Supervision Issues
2019	November	3	2018 Ethics Violations and Code-Enforcement Activities Update
2019	August	1	Preventing Disputes Between Supervisors and Trainees
2019	August	3	New Ethics Resource
2019	August	3	The Publicly Documented Alleged Violation Submission
2018	December	2	RBT Certification Requirements
2018	December	5	RBT Ethics Code
2018	November	3	Behavior Technicians May Not be Independent Contractors in the US
2017	April	2	10.02 Timely Responding, Reporting, and Updating of Information Provided to the BACB (Part 2)
2016	November	2	10.02 Timely Responding, Reporting, and Updating of Information Provided to the BACB (Part 1)
2016	April	3	On Testimonials
2015	October	3	Notes from the Legal Department: Conflict of Interest
2015	October	3	Notes from the Legal Department: Exploitive Relationships
2015	October	3	Notes from the Legal Department: Multiple Relationships
2015	May	1	The Definition of “Client”
2015	May	1	Code Updates
2015	May	2	The Definition of “Student”
2015	May	2	Multiple Relationships
2015	May	2	Guidance on Gifts
2014	December	5	Implementation of the BACB’s New Code of Ethics
2014	December	5	Tips for University Programs and Continuing Education Providers: Avoiding Misrepresentations
2014	November	6	Guidance on Retainers
2014	November	6	Guidance on Waitlists
2014	November	6	Guidance on Providing Clinical Hour Recommendations
2014	November	6	BACB Processing of Complaints Regarding Business Practices
2014	September	1	Description of 2014 Ethics Workgroup
2014	September	2	Description of Guidelines and Standards into Compliance Code
2014	September	3	Development of Code Compliance Committee
2014	September	3	Time Limitation on Complaints
2014	September	3	Who Can Be Named in a Complaint
2014	September	3	Release of Complaint to Party Named
2014	September	3	How BACB Reports Disciplinary Actions
2014	September	5	Cross-reference guide for Compliance Code to Guidelines and Standards
2014	May	5	BCaBA Representation of Credential
2014	May	5	RBT Trademark/Copyright Use
2013	December	4	RBT Ethical Requirements (Guidelines)
2013	December	4	BACB Processing of Complaints Against RBT
2011	January	6	Disciplinary Discussion with Revised Disciplinary Procedures
2008	September	2	Use of Pending, Candidate, or Pursuant Status
2007	January	9	Limitations of BACB Legal Advice
2007	January	10	Non-Behavior-Analytic and Non-Evidence-Based Interventions
2005	August	1	Collaboration with Other Professionals

Ethics-Related Episodes of Inside the BACB Podcast

The Inside the BACB podcast is offered subject to the BACB's website Terms of Use and is intended for general information only. All opinions expressed are those of the speakers. If you would like or need access to transcribed versions of the podcast, please visit our Podcast Episode Videos playlist on our BACB Videos webpage and use the "closed caption" option on the episode of your choice.

Inside the BACB is available on all major listening platforms, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Inside the BACB, join CEO Dr. Jim Carr and Director of Ethics Dr. Tyra Sellers as they discuss the RBT Ethics Code (2.0), a revised version of the ethics code for RBTs. Tune in now to learn about the revision process, changes to current ethics standards, and more.

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