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BCBA Exam Ethics Ethics - correct answer BEHAVIORS, PRACTICES, and DECISIONS that address 3 fundamental questions that guide how you conduct yourself to help others improve their physical, social, psychological, familial, or personal condition Question: Why is Ethics Important? - correct answer To further the welfare of the client 3 Fundamental Questions of Ethical Practice - correct answer 1. What is the right thing to do? 2. What is worth doing? 3. What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst? 1. What is the right thing to do? - correct answer -Considerations related to cultural practices: what may be acceptable in one culture is not in another -Differences across time: what may have been acceptable 20 years ago is not today Things to Help You Guide the Decision-Making Process - correct answer 1. Professional Training and Experience -Your training should influence the methods you use. The decision to opt for Method A (e.g., differential reinforcement) or Method B (e.g., overcorrection) should be based on your clinical training, not your personal history -Your training as a behavior analyst should ALWAYS OVERRIDE your personal history. 2. Personal History -A personal history is your individual cultural, religious, or social background. It should not influence your clinical decisions. -Recognize that your personal history may lead to inappropriate solutions (e.g., if a person was raised in a family that believed in "spare the rod, spoil the child", that person may tend to be harsh with children) -If you recognize that your personal history is impacting your clinical decision-making, get help from supervisors, colleagues, and research. If you cannot get the help or change your behavior, excuse yourself from the case. 3. The Context of Practice -Refers to where you practice and the specific nature of job (e.g., at home, at school, etc.) -Determines what is legal vs. illegal, ethical vs. unethical Question: What is Legal, but Unethical? - correct answer 1. Breaking a professional confidence. 2. Accepting valued heirlooms in lieu of payment. 3. Engaging in consensual sex with a client over the age of 18. Question: What is Both Illegal and Unethical? - correct answer 1. Misrepresenting promised services or skills. 2. Stealing a client's belongings. 3. Abusing a client physically, emotionally, financially, socially, or sexually. 4. Engaging in consensual sexual relations with persons under age 18. Question: What are Ethical Codes of Behavior? - correct answer -Guidelines that specify what IS a violation. -Guidelines for deciding a course of action or conducting professional duties. -Guidelines to help to discriminate between legal and ethical distinctions making us more likely to: -provide effective services -maintain sensitivity towards clients -not break the law or our professional standards of conduct 2. What is Worth Doing? - correct answer -Addresses the goals and objectives of practice and forces us to ask the questions: 1. What are we trying to accomplish? 2. How are we trying to accomplish it? 3. Is the objective socially valid? 4. What is the risk-benefit ratio? Social Validity - correct answer -When the results show meaningful, significant, and sustainable change. -When the goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst, and society. -Not every skill has social validity (ex. teaching an adult with developmental disabilities to play with children's coloring books is not socially valid. 2 Ways to Assess Social Validity - correct answer 1. Social Comparison: -Comparison of the performance of clients exposed to the intervention with an equivalent or "typically developing" group. -Limitation: normative data may not be really relevant for the client's functioning.