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| The permission given by an individual with legal right to consent before participating in services or research, or allowing their information to be shared. |
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| Human rights, legal rights, rights codified within behavior analysis, and organization rules designed to benefit the client |
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| The direct recipient of the Behavior Analyst's services. |
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| Behavior-Change Intervention |
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| The full set of behavioral procedures designed to improve the client's wellbeing. |
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| A comingling of two or more behavior analysts roles with a client, stakeholder, supervisee, trainee, research participant, or someone closely associated with or related to the client |
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| An incompatibility between a behavior analysts' private and professional interests resulting in risk or potential risk to services provided to, or the professional relationship with a client, stakeholder, supervisee, trainee, or research participant. |
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| An individual other than the client who is impacted by and invested in the behavior analysts services (parent, caregiver relative, legally authorized representative, collaborator, employer, agency or institutional representatives, licensure board, funder, third party contractor for services) |
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| An individual or group of individuals, or entity other than the direct recipients of services, the primary caregiver, the legally authorized representative or the behavior analyst, who requests and funds services on behalf of a client or group of clients. |
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| Research Review Committee |
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A group of professionals whose stated purpose is to review research proposals to ensure the ethical treatment of human research participants.
For example: Institutional Review Board |
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| Legally Authorized Representative |
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| Any individual authorized under law to provide consent on behalf of an individual who cannot provide consent to receive services or participate in research. |
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| An individual who holds BCBA or BCaBA certification or who has submitted a complete application for BCBA or BCaBA certification. |
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| Delivery of information (digital or otherwise) in a public forum for the purpose of either better informing that audience or providing a call-to-action. |
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Any data-based activity, including analysis of preexisting data, designed to generate generalizable knowledge for the
discipline. |
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| The professional activities a behavior analyst can consistently perform with proficiency. |
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Services that are explicitly based on the principles and procedures of behavior analysis and are designed to change
behavior in meaningful ways. These services include, but are not limited to, assessment, behavior-change interventions,
training, consultation, managing and supervising others, and delivering continuing education. |
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| Information that is made available for online consumption, downloading, or distribution through an electronic medium. (ex: TV, social media, radio). Pictures, videos and audio files are considered digital content. |
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| A digital platform found through a web browser where an entity (individual and/or organization) produces and distributes digital content for the consumption of users online. Depending on the functionality, users can consume, create, copy, download, share, or comment on the provided digital content. |
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A digital platform, either found through a web browser or through an application, where users (individuals and/or
businesses) can consume, create, copy, download, share, or comment on posts or advertisements. Both posts and
advertisements would be considered digital content. |
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Before implementing services, behavior analysts ensure that there is a signed service agreement with the client and/
or relevant stakeholders outlining the responsibilities of all parties, the scope of behavioral services to be provided,
the behavior analyst’s obligations under the Code, and procedures for submitting complaints about a behavior analyst’s
professional practices to relevant entities (e.g., BACB, service organization, licensure board, funder). |
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Any solicited or unsolicited recommendation, in any form,
from a client, stakeholder, supervisee, or trainee affirming
the benefits received from a behavior analyst’s product or
service. From the point at which a behavior analyst asks an
individual for a recommendation it is considered solicited. |
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