E-3.01-3.02 Responsibility to Clients, Identifying Stakeholders

You believe one of your clients would benefit from occupational therapy (OT). However, the school district you are working for does not provide OT services. To avoid complications, your supervisor asks you to not mention it during the upcoming educational planning meeting. You

recommend that the parents seek an evaluation independent of the school to determine if the child would benefit from services.

A behavior analyst observes staff acting in a way that appears to be sexually inappropriate towards the clients. The behavior analyst feels he may need to do something about his potential mistreatment, even though he is not employed by this agency. Is he correct?

Yes, his overarching obligation is to the well-being of any person being served.

A "stakeholder" is defined as

a party, other than the client, who is impacted by or invested in the behavior analyst's services.

A parent of a classmate is concerned that the therapists for a BCBA's client are disruptive to the educational setting. The teacher asks the BCBA to join her in a meeting to discuss the parent's concern. The BCBA agrees because he has a responsibility to

all parties affected by his services.

A "client" may be

an individual, a parent or guardian of a child receiving services, or an organization.

A teacher requests that a behavioral analyst conduct a behavior assessment with a 5-year-old child in her kindergarten classroom. The principal develops and arranges for the contract to be signed by the behavior analyst and the parents sign the consent for assessment form. The behavior analyst completes the assessment with the child using direct and indirect methods. In this instance, the client for the behavior analytic services is/are the

child.

When multiple stakeholders are involved, behavior analysts

identify and communicate their obligation to each party at the beginning of the relationship.

A BCBA is responsible to take action when

individuals who are not clients are adversely impacted by the BCBA's services.

The project director, house manager, direct support staff, and behavior analyst are meeting with a group-home resident and his parents to discuss the resident's desire to move into his own apartment. At the meeting, the skills needed to live in an apartment are identified and the team agrees that the behavior analyst's role will be to train the house manager and direct support staff on prompting and reinforcement strategies to build the target skills. In this instance, the client(s) for the behavior analytic services is/are the

manager and direct support staff.

A child receiving intensive services has a sibling who is jealous of the time and attention given to the target child. The mother asks the BCBA if she can hire him to watch the target child while she takes the sibling for a special outing. Watching the child is

not the behavior analyst's responsibility and may create a multiple relationship.

A social worker requests the services of a behavior analysts for a family with two young children. The services are paid for by the Birth-to-Three program and the behavior analyst trains the parents how to develop routines, arrange communication opportunities, and redirect their children when there are problematic behaviors. In this instance, the client for the behavior analytic services is/are the

parents.

The project director, house manager, direct support staff, and behavior analyst are meeting with a group-home resident and his parents to discuss the resident's desire to move into his own apartment. At the meeting, the skills needed to live in an apartment are identified and the team agrees that the behavior analyst's role will be to train the house manager and direct support staff on prompting and reinforcement strategies to build the target skills. In this instance, the stakeholder(s) for the behavior analytic services is/are the

project director, the parents, and the resident.

A "client" is defined as

the direct recipient of the behavior analyst's services.

When multiple parties are affected by behavioral services, the BCBA ultimately advocates for

the primary beneficiary of the services.