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The Professional Infrastructure of Applied Behavior Analysis | Behavior Analyst Certification Board | YouTubeToText
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Applied behavior analysis, or ABA, is a relatively new profession. So it's important for trainees, certificants, practitioners,
educators, and supervisors, among others, to be knowledgeable about the professional landscape.
Including organizations, entities, and programs. Their various responsibilities and activities. And how they function within the profession.
So let's break it down. What are the elements of a mature profession?
A profession is generally described as a paid occupation that involves specialized training, formal qualifications, and delivery of a service to the public.
So a mature profession is exactly what it sounds like.
A profession that has had time to mature and develop its professional infrastructure.
With age comes experience. Which is why mature professions often have systems in place,
like standardized university training curricula, certification requirements, and established regulatory functions,
to ensure that practitioners are educated, trained, and qualified to practice.
Each of these elements helps build the foundation of a mature profession. Let's take a closer look.
National professional associations support the profession by establishing a community of
qualified voluntary members, offering conferences and continuing education,
providing a wide variety of resources, and making statements on behalf of the profession.
Professional certification programs support the profession by establishing entry-level standards for practice and providing voluntary certifications.
Regulatory entities, also. commonly known as licensure boards, support the profession by establishing mandatory requirements
and legal parameters practitioners must abide by.
University training programs that have standardized training curricula support the profession by
providing high quality education and trainings that help ensure the competence of the practitioner.
Mature professions also include localized professional organizations, a variety of training and qualification options,
and other vital support systems for practitioners and service recipients. It truly takes a village.
Now that we're familiar with the elements of a mature profession, let's explore the current infrastructure of ABA, a relatively new profession.
Applied behavior analysis, a profession based on the science of learning and behavior,
is in its infancy but it's rapidly growing. Despite the unavoidable growing pains it has experienced,
ABA already contains elements of a developing profession. Let's have a look.
The Association for Behavior Analysis International, or ABAI, is a membership organization that strives to,
"contribute to the well-being of society by developing enhancing and supporting the growth of behavior analysis through research education and practice."
ABAI operates an accreditation program for university training programs in behavior analysis, which ensures the function
of high quality training and education in ABA. It also operates a Verified Course Sequence
program that identifies educational courses that meet the requirements for certification.
Association of Professional Behavior Analysts. The Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, or APBA,
is a membership organization that strives to, "promote and advance the science-based practice of applied behavior analysis."
It was established to support the practice of ABA and its members who include ABA professionals, consumers, and students.
Other organizations. There are a number of other professional organizations that we haven't mentioned
that support the practice of ABA at the national and state level in the U.S. and internationally.
Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Certification programs are run by certifying entities like the
Behavior Analyst Certification Board, or BACB. The BACB strives to, "protect consumers of behavior
analytic services worldwide by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards of practice."
The BACB establishes entry-level standards of practice at each certification level by following widely accepted practices in the certification industry.
The BACB's status as a non-profit certifying organization means that it must abide by certain
restrictions that are not necessarily present in some other professions, whose certification bodies
may have been established in different IRS tax classifications.
ABAI-Accredited Degree Programs are training programs that have been reviewed and authorized to
meet ABAI's accreditation standards. These training programs educate and train practitioners,
and often count towards their eligibility requirements for certification.
ABAI Verified Course Sequences.
ABAI Verified Course Sequences are sequences of coursework that have been reviewed and
verified to meet the eligibility requirements for BACB certification at the BCBA and BCaBA levels.
U.S. States with licensure laws. More than half of all U.S. States have licensure laws that regulate ABA practitioners.
In fact many of these states use BACB certification requirements in conjunction with
other state-specific requirements, such as jurisprudence examination, as a foundation of their licensure laws.
Even though certification is voluntary, licensure is required where ABA regulatory requirements are in place.
Those who are found to be practicing without a license face serious consequences, such as fines and possible criminal charges.
Together these organizations, entities, programs, and more, make up the foundation of the ABA profession.
Though ABA is a profession in its adolescence, its building blocks are there, and all entities are working hard to meet its ever increasing demands.
So what can you do with this information?
Become a member of your local and national membership associations. As a student or practitioner of ABA
it's so important to join a community of behavior analytic peers and mentors.
And joining a professional membership association is one of the best ways to do so.
In addition, without your membership in these organizations, they won't have the resources to develop the supports that you need.
For more information about your local and national professional associations, check out their websites.
Stay informed. If you are a BACB certificant, trainee, or student, be sure to stay informed about ABA's. ever-changing professional infrastructure.
Those in the business of ABA have an obligation to stay informed about the regulatory functions of ABA.
Just as trainees and certificants must stay informed about certification eligibility, and maintenance requirements.
Inform others. If you are an educator, or supervisor, be sure to share your respect for,
and knowledge of the profession and its landscape to your students, trainees, and supervisees,
to ensure that ABA remains relevant and valuable to consumers down the line.
The field needs informed and educated practitioners who can facilitate the education of their colleagues.
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