Ethical Considerations For Aba

Front 1

The Right to Effective Behavioral Treatment

Back 1

An individual as a right to...
1...a therapeutic environment.
2...services whose overrideing goal is personal welfare.
3...treatment by a competent behavior analyst.
4...programs that teach functional skills.
5...behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluation.
6...the most effective treatment procedures available.

Front 2

An Acceptable Treatment Environment

Back 2

1.The environment is engaging.
2. Functional skills are taught and maintained.
3. Behavior problems are ameliorated.
4. The environment is the least restrictive alternative.
5. The environment is stable.
6. The environment is safe.
7. The client chooses to live there.

Front 3

Ethical Issues in Client Services

Back 3

1. Informed Consent
2. Confidentiality and its Limits
3. Helping the client select outcomes and behavior change targets.
4. Protecting the client's dignity, health, and safety.
5. Maintaining records.

Front 4

Ethics

Back 4

Refers to behaviors, practices,and decisions that address three basic and fundamental questions: What is the right thing to do? What is worth doing? What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?

Front 5

Addressing "What is the right thing to do?"

Back 5

1. Personal histories
2. The context of practice.
3. Ethical codes of behavior.

Front 6

Addressing "What is worth doing?"

Back 6

1. Social Validity
2. Cost-Benefits Ratio
3. Existing Contingencies

Front 7

Addressing "What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?"

Back 7

1. Self-regulating; seeking ways to calibrate decisions over time to ensure that values, contingencies, and rights and responsibilities are integrated and an informed combination of these are considered.
2. Keeping clients' welfare at the forefront of decision-making.
3. Adhering to the codes of the Association of Behavior Analysis and the BACB.

Front 8

Why is ethics important?

Back 8

1. To produce "meaningful" behavior change of social significance for the persons entrusted to their care.
2. To reduce or eliminate harm (e.g., poor treatments, self-injury).
3. Conform to the ethical standards of leaned societies and professional organizations.

Front 9

Professional Standards

Back 9

Written guidelines or rules of practice that provide direction for conducting the practices associated with the organization.

Front 10

Five complementary and interrelated documents that describe standards of professional conduct and ethical practice for applied behavior analysts.

Back 10

1. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
2. The Right to Effective Behavioral Treatment
3. The Right to Effective Education
4. Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts
5. The BCBA and BCABA Behavior Analyst Task List - Third Edition

Front 11

Ensuring Professional Competence

Back 11

1. Obtaining Certification and Licensure
2. Practicing Within One's Areas of Competence
3. Maintaining and Expanding Professional Competence
4. Making and Substantiating Professional Claims

Front 12

Maintaining and Expanding Professional Competence

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1. Continuing Education Units
2. Attending and Presenting at Conferences
3. Professional Reading
4. Oversight and Peer Review Opportunity

Front 13

Informed Consent Criteria

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1. The person must demonstrate the capacity to decide.
a) An adequate mental process or faculty by which he or she acquires knowledge.
b) The ability to select and express his or her choices
c) The ability to engage in a rational process of decision-making. -OR-
d)Surrogate or Guardian Consent
2. The person's decision must be voluntary.
3. The person must have adequate knowledge of salient aspects of the treatment.

Front 14

The Decision to Provide Treatment

Back 14

1. Is the problem amenable to behavior treatment?
2. Is the proposed intervention likely to be successful?

Front 15

Addressing "Is the problem amenable to behavior treatment?"

Back 15

1. Has the problem emerged suddenly?
2. Is the problem with the client or with someone else?
3. Have other interventions been tried?
4. Does the problem actually exist?
5. Can the problem be solved simply or informally?
6. Might the problem be better addressed by another discipline?
7. Is the behavioral problem considered to be an emergency?

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Addressing "Is the proposed intervention likely to be successful?"

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1. Is the client willing to participate?
2. Are the caregivers surrounding the client willing or able to participate?
3. Has the behavior been successfully treated in the research literature?
4. Is public support likely?
5. Does the behavior analyst have the appropriate experience to deal with the problem?
6. Will those most likely to be involved in implementing the program have adequate control of the critical environmental contingencies?