EDF5685 · Professional ethics for behaviour analysts

Overview

The aim of this unit is to develop your ability to practice ethically in a variety of contexts. In this unit, you will be introduced to the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts and the Association for Behaviour Analysis Australia’s Code of Ethical Practice. We will explore professional and ethical issues in behaviour analysis, including our ethical responsibilities to clients, colleagues, supervisees, other professionals, and society as a whole. You will learn to engage in ethical decision-making within the context of evidence-based practice, and will identify contextual and cultural factors that may influence ethical behaviour in real world settings. In addition, you will learn to distinguish between scope of practice and scope of competence in applied behaviour analysis, will identify your own scope of competence, and will describe ways to expand your scope of competence.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. describe the key features of the responsible conduct of behaviour analysts, including how to identify your own scope of competence
2. describe the behaviour analyst’s ethical responsibilities to clients, colleagues, supervisees, other professionals, the BACB, and society
3. identify important ethical considerations for conducting behaviour analytic research
4. identify potential ethical code violations and ethically complex situations that can develop in professional practice, and describe strategies to remediate them
5. use systems analysis and the decision-making process of evidence-based practice to prevent and resolve ethical dilemmas
6. behave in accordance with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts and the Association for Behaviour Analysis Australia’s Code of Ethical Practice in professional practice, in an Australian context

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, plus 33 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study OR • 45 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^ ^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode. Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.