The Importance of Professional Discourse for the Continual Advancement of Practice Standards: The RBT® as a Case in Point

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB®) created a third level of certification, the Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT®) in 2014. The RBT® was created based upon the requests of stakeholders who wanted to credential those individuals who make direct contact with clients under the supervis...

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Autores principales: Leaf, Justin B., Leaf, Ronald, McEachin, John, Bondy, Andy, Cihon, Joseph H., Detrich, Ronnie, Eshleman, John, Ferguson, Julia L., Foxx, Richard M., Freeman, B. J., Gerhardt, Peter, Glenn, Sigrid S., Miller, Megan, Milne, Christine M., Mountjoy, Toby, Parker, Tracee, Pritchard, Joshua, Ross, Robert K., Saunders, Melissa S., Streff, Todd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32761432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04631-z
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Sumario:The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB®) created a third level of certification, the Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT®) in 2014. The RBT® was created based upon the requests of stakeholders who wanted to credential those individuals who make direct contact with clients under the supervision of a Board Certified Behavior Analyst®. There has been tremendous growth in the number of RBTs® with over 60,000 individuals certified to date. The BACB® recently sent out a newsletter outlining changes to the RBT® certification, including the processes of training, supervising, and becoming an RBT®. These changes represent a number of potential concerns. The purpose of this paper is to highlight these concerns and to propose solutions to improve the RBT® certification.

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