The Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc.® (BACB®) is an important organization that helps behavior analysts achieve professional certification and provides its clients with excellent assistance and care; however, the BACB is not the only organization supporting behavior analysts.
Additional organizations, such as the American Psychological Association and the Association for Behavior Analysis International, also provide services for behavior analysts, including ethical codes of conduct. These codes can differ, and, when they do, it is the behavior analyst’s responsibility to determine the most appropriate approach for the current situation.
For this Assignment, you will review codes of ethics from a number of organizations supporting behavior analysts and analyze which code would be most appropriate for your future professional practice.
To Prepare
- Review the Learning Resources for this week, specifically the APA Code of Ethics, BACB® Code of Ethics, and the ABAI code of ethics found on the ABAI’s Position Statements and Policies webpage.
Assignment (1–2 pages)
- Compare the different codes of ethics as they relate to your professional practice.
- What do you find different? What do you find similar? Decide whether you believe one code supersedes the other.
Be sure to support your Assignment with specific references to behavior-analytic theory and research. In addition to the Learning Resources, search the Walden Library and/or the internet for peer-reviewed articles to support your Assignment. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.
Resources
- Bailey, J. S., & Burch, M. R. (2022). Ethics for behavior analysts (4th ed.). Routledge.
- Chapter 1, “How We Got Here” (pp. 3–14)
- Chapter 2, “Changes to the 2022 Ethics Code” (pp. 15–28)
- Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
- Chapter 31, “Ethical Considerations for Applied Behavior Analysts” (pp. 758–784)
- American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conductLinks to an external site.: Including 2010 and 2016 amendments . https://www.apa.org/ethics/code
- Association for Behavior Analysis International. (n.d.). Position statements and policiesLinks to an external site.. https://www.abainternational.org/about-us/policies...
Note: On this webpage, read the “Code of Ethics” section. - Behavior Analysis Certification Board. (2020). Ethics code for behavior analysts Download Ethics code for behavior analysts. https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Et...
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