| What is the problem? | Which ethical standards pertain to this problem? | Consider dimensions of the problem | Courses of action / potential consequences | Select course of action | Implement and evaluate the course of action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
falsifying hours | accurately tracking hours | cannot get certification with false hours | delete the extra 2 hours - restart if needed | go back in the months and delete the unacceptable hours | it's a hard decision and will set her back time wise, but accurate hours are required. |
Yvonne's trainee did not do his math right on his fieldwork tracker. Yvonne was new to supervision and did not catch this mistake until late in the game | supervisory volume | The trainee will lose a lot of hours, but did not receive the correct percentage of supervision to count them. Yvonne is also accountable for not checking earlier | contact the BACB | ||
Inaccuracy of tracking fieldwork hours | 4.05 Maintaining Supervision Documentation | Fieldwork hours can be lost; ineffective sueprvision | Must make time to evaluate supervision documents monthly | Add to supervision checklist to ensure it is checked more often | More accurate time keeping moving forward |
inaccurate hours | documentation accuracy | requirements for credentials, slowing progress | make the needed changes to the hours and offer to continue providing the hours needed | ||
404 4.01 4.05 | |||||
Hours | 4.04 | The trainee may be impacted by being short on hours | Meet with the trainee and figure out the scope of the problem | Discuss a method to correct the situation | Do a makeup plan that will give the trainee their needed hours with the least amount of impact |
Yvonne did not record her supervisee supervision hours. Her supervisee did not document their supervision hours for each month. | 4.05 responsible for ensuring trainees keep accurate and complete records of supervision | Yvonne needs to train her supervisee to record their supervision hours accurrately and make this part of their supervisions until he/she is competent with this skill. | Use this as a learning opportunity and work on this skill as supervisee and supervisor. | Assign this as homework and check in during next supervision. | Create a task list of skills to train the supervisee and work on each skill until is mastered. |
Incorrect hours reported | 4.05 Maintaining Supervision Documentation (1.01, 1.02, 1.04, 2.03, 2.05, 3.11) | Consult Ethics code to ensure remain in compliance. | Adjust hours - | Adjust hours | Establish written plan with supervisee to ensure meeting hourly requirements. |
There is a fieldwork hour error that needs addressed. | 4.04 Accountability in Supervision | Leaving the hours alone would be fabricating hours which is an ethical violation | Yvonne should consult with another BCBA or her superior regarding this situation as she is unsure what to do. | Consult with the appropriate parties. Correct the incorrect months and make a plan to make those hours up through an appropriate channel. | As long as the error is correct correctly and none of the incorrect data is included, there should be no ethical dilemma |
The supervisor has maybe taken on too much at once | Volume - 4.03 | Risk to supervisor registration | Need to amend hours and support supervisee with opportunities to gain extra hours | Supervisor to ensure opportunities for hours | Evaluate relationship going forward |
miscalculating the amount of supervision hours needed for each month | appropriate supervision to keep credentials. | ||||
Maintaining Supervision Documentation | 4.05 | By not keeping track of the documented and accumulated fieldwork hours, the trainee and supervisor are at risk for not meeting the standards set out by the bacb | Contacting the bacb and re-calculating the hours that the trainee has accumulated. | This trainee must re-calculate the number of hours accumulated and re-do all the misrepresented time. | The misrepresented time must be recovered. |
Hours required | Field work | Empathy for the supervisee | Upset supervisee and accept a tenuous arrangement moving forward | Abide by all ethical codes | Stay firm |
Inaccurate tracking of hours | hours do not reflect actual hours worked | not ethical or honest | correct hours documentation | correct hours documentation | make sure it is accurately reflected and retained for 7 years |
N.a | N.a | N/a | N/a | N/a | N/a |
inaccurate tracking | fieldwork hours recording | Trainee may lose hours | train the trainee and figure out the damage | set time aside to oversee the tracker | Get past panic and move forward productively |
Miscalculation of supervised hours | Accurate information | Work together to fix the issue and ensure accuracy of hours | Moving forward, check the logs | ||
Supervisor did not ensure proper supervision and training on calculating hours | Cannot accumulate hours without appropriate amount of supervision | Trainee will be upset, ethics violation to count the hours | Only hours accounted for by supervision provided can count | Recalculate hours | Angry trainee, but above board if audited |
Taking on more supervisees then she was able to manage. | Understanding and maintaining accurate files. | Steps should have been in place to verify the supervision ratios earlier in the process then at the 1 year mark. | Recheck the supervision ratio and documentation to determine how off the ratio actually was, the most likely consequence is the a small portion of the accrued hours would not count towards the total hours needed. | Adjust the current plan to accommodate the additional supervision. Make a plan to review the supervision ratio more frequently to reduce the possible errors in the future. | Adjust the current plan to accommodate the additional supervision. Make a plan to review the supervision ratio more frequently to reduce the possible errors in the future. |
It seems Yvonne may have failed to maintain the ethical code by taking on too many trainees at once, she lacked her duty to oversee supervisee documentation. | 4.03 Supervisory Volume | If Yvonne cannot help the trainee resolve the issue, the trainee could fail completing their supervision requirements and not complete their certification. | Yvonne will need to reach out to the board to take accountability for failing to oversee documentation routinely and find a way to help the trainee get an exception for time and receive the proper amount of supervision late. | contact the board and request a time extension for the supervisee. | |
She did not adhere to ethics code on documentation. | documentation | her lack of documentation has a deep history that cannot be taken back. | Reach out to BACB on potential solutions and if the trainee did not meet the require monthly hours they may have to re-do the hours. | Seek out possible solutions and ensure adequate documentation for future. | Review and sign off hours each month |
Documentation | |||||
Yvonne did not do a routine check to keep her trainees accountable. | Supervisory volume. | The trainee may have to redo their hours. THe supervisor may get in trouble for not keeping all accounts accountable. | The trainee may have to redo their hours. THe supervisor may get in trouble for not keeping all accounts accountable. | The supervisor checks the Code and assesses the situation. | Yvonne finds the answer and implements it. |
Miscalculating the hours | |||||
Yvonne did not recognize that a supervisee was miscalculating his hours during the time that he was being supervised. | 4.04 Accountability in Supervision | Yvonne should have been on top of this earlier on in the supervision process, however, the supervisee cannot document incorrect hours. | Yvonne should have a discussion with the supervisee that includes speaking about why those hours cannot be counted and how to make up those missed hours. | Yvonne should have a discussion with the supervisee that includes speaking about why those hours cannot be counted and how to make up those missed hours. | This course of action is the best that can be done at this time. |
| What is the problem? | Which ethical standards pertain to this problem? | Consider dimensions of the problem | Courses of action / potential consequences | Select course of action | Implement and evaluate the course of action |
