The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB)

Behaviour is dynamic, in order to make socially significant changes to behaviour that contribute to the well-being of an individual and reframe from harming the individual an ethical code must be followed. Ethics guide the decision making and actions of an individual (Brodhead & Higbee, 2012, p. 82).
The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) codified a set of ten fundamental ethical guidelines to be followed by all behaviour analysts. The BACB guidelines are intended to be used as an aid for behaviour analysts in the process of finding answers to ethical and professional quandaries relate to the field. The guidelines encourage behaviour analysts to rely on scientifically validated research and practice only in their areas of expertise,

These procedures are essential as they provide the data that will go on to be the foundation of a treatment for the client (Bailey & Burch, 2011).
A thorough functional assessment of SIB considers motivating operations (MO) that evoke or inhibit the behaviour and increase of decrease potency of the reinforcers maintaining the behaviour, discriminative stimuli that occasion or inhibit the behaviour, and the reinforcers that maintain the behaviour. (()) Meta-analytic reviews have shown that functional assessment significantly increase the effectiveness of the behaviour treatments of severe behaviour problems, such as SIB (Carr et al., 1999; Didden, Duker, & Korzilius, 1997; Scotti, Evans, Meyer, & Walker, 1991; Sternberg, Taylor, & Babkie,

It occurs when a therapist steps of his or her role as therapist and becomes a friend, a financial backer, an employer, or a sexual partner. Boundary crossing happens when normal boundaries are crossed in some way, which may be beneficial to the client. It encompasses any deviation from traditional, rigid, strict, antiquated, emotionally distant forms of therapy. They refer to issues of self-disclosure, length, and place of sessions, physical touch, activities outside the office, gift exchange, social, and other forms of dual