Ethics CEU: Beyond the Clinic: How BCBAs Can Launch Ethical, High Impact Coaching Programs

The behavior-analytic skill set extends far beyond the traditional clinical environment, and growing numbers of BCBAs are exploring how their training in measurement, functional analysis, reinforcement, and systems-level thinking can serve populations and settings that fall outside conventional ABA service delivery. Coaching, whether focused on organizational behavior management, parent training outside of insurance-funded models, health and fitness behavior change, or professional development, represents a natural extension of behavior-analytic competence.

Provider: Behaviorist Book Club

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Course Description

This session equips behavior analysts with a practical, ethics-first framework for launching coaching programs beyond traditional clinical ABA settings. The presenter walks participants through the process of identifying coaching domains where behavior-analytic training provides a strong foundation, while maintaining alignment with the BACB Ethics Code and scope of competence. Participants explore how to evaluate readiness, develop transparent service offerings, and build sustainable coaching models leveraging behavior-analytic principles.

What You'll Learn

1. Evaluate personal scope of competence using the BACB Ethics Code to determine readiness for launching a coaching program in a specific domain.
2. Describe at least three behavior-analytic principles that can be ethically applied within a coaching framework outside of traditional clinical ABA service delivery.
3. Design a coaching service model that maintains ethical boundaries, includes transparent scope-of-practice disclosures, and uses data-driven approaches to measure client outcomes.

CEU Credits Earned

Certification Body	Credits	Type
BACB	1	Ethics