Jon Bailey's session addresses a reality that every practicing BCBA recognizes but few CEU courses tackle directly: the daily experience of navigating difficult professional relationships while simultaneously maintaining ethical standards and providing quality clinical services. The pressures BCBAs face today are multidirectional.
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Join Free →BCBAs are in a difficult position at present, they are pressured to increase their billable hours, to take on more clients and additional supervisees to improve the company's bottom line. At the same time, they are faced with difficult people at every turn. Their supervisees do not have a good work ethic, occasionally fake data, and timesheets as well; their clients/stakeholders do not appear to be invested in learning behavioral procedures to apply to their child client; their supervisors do not take an interest in their supervision practices or in providing support and they have colleagues that routinely violate the ethics code, provide poor supervision, and have little more than a passing interest in the welfare of the clients. In this presentation I will attempt to provide a behavioral approach to dealing with these difficult people using the tools that behavior analysts already know how to use with clients.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Ethics |
Dr. Bailey received his BS and MS from Arizona State University where he worked with Jack Michael and Lee Meyerson, and his PhD, from the University of Kansas in 1970, with Mont Wolf as his mentor; he is a newly retired Professor Emeritus of Psychology from Florida State University where he was on the graduate faculty for 38 years and produced a record 63 PhDs. He was on the faculty of the FSU Panama City for nearly 25 years and created their ABA Master’s Program which has been ranked #1 in the world by the BACB three times in the last 10 years; approximately 350 students have graduated from the program. He is a BCBA-D, a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis: International, and the American Psychological Association. Jon received the Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, the Division 25 Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award and the University of Kansas Applied Behavioral Science Distinguished Alumni Award as well as the prestigious Nathan H. Azrin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Behavior Analysis from the American Psychological Association. In 2017, he received the Murray Sidman Award for Enduring Contributions to Behavior Analysis from the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy. He is credited with founding the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis which now has nearly 2,000 members and Behavior Management Consultants, a thriving consulting company, both in 1980. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed research articles, is past Chief Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and is the co-author of 16 books including Ethics for Behavior Analysts, Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis, How to Think Like a… Behavior Analyst and 25 Essential Skills for Professional Behavior Analysts. His latest endeavor is the creation of the popular ABAEthicsHotline.com which receives hundreds of ethics questions per month from consumers and behavior analysts all over the world.
Dig into the research behind this topic — plain-English summaries written for BCBAs.
280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.