Matt Harrington

This guide is for BCBAs, RBTs, and clinical supervisors who may need to publicly discuss client work or professional activities. It shows how to turn ABA data into truthful, evidence-based statements while protecting privacy and disclosing conflicts, so your communications are clear and ethical. Use the practical checklist and examples to apply BACB Ethics Code, licensing rules, and employer policies before posting, presenting, or publishing.

This guide is for BCBA, RBT, and clinic leaders seeking to design and evaluate ABA modeling procedures. It clarifies how to distinguish modeling from prompting, choose formats (live, video, peer), and implement a clear fading plan. Learn practical metrics—accuracy, latency, generalization, maintenance—and fidelity checks to turn data into clear, ethical clinical decisions. It also outlines ethical safeguards, consent, and confidentiality to protect clients and practices.

This post is for BCBAs and other behavior analysts who interpret assessment data to decide whether to provide ABA services, refer to another professional, or coordinate care. It shows how to turn multi-source data—observation, caregiver and teacher input, standardized measures, and medical records—into a clear, ethical decision, with red flags that trigger referrals. It also guides documenting the rationale and communicating plans to families in plain language to support safety, scope of practice, and appropriate care.

This post is for practicing BCBAs, clinic directors, and senior supervisors who need to decide when to use single-case designs versus group designs. It helps you identify which question you’re answering—individual change versus population effects—and how to translate ABA data into clear, ethical decisions for care and policy. You’ll find practical guidance and safeguards to choose the design that best serves client welfare and program goals, with data you can defend to families, supervisors, and funders. The focus is on turning data into actionable, ethical decisions that respect each client’s needs.

This post helps practicing BCBAs, clinic leaders, senior RBTs, and clinically minded caregivers learn how to collaborate with families, teachers, therapists, and physicians to support client services. It focuses on turning ABA data into clear, ethical decisions across home, school, and clinic, and clarifies the difference between collaboration and consultation with practical steps for aligning goals, roles, and data. It also covers consent, confidentiality, documentation, and strategies for resolving disagreements to sustain effective, client-centered treatment.

This post is for practicing BCBAs, RBT supervisors, clinic owners, and experienced caregivers, and it explains how to design and evaluate positive and negative punishment in ABA with ethical safeguards. It centers on turning ABA data into clear, ethical decisions—grounding use of punishment in functional assessment, consistent data collection with IOA, informed consent, and a plan to teach alternatives and fade the procedure. It offers practical guidelines on timing, intensity, and monitoring for side effects, and helps readers distinguish punishment from negative reinforcement and extinction to avoid common pitfalls.

A practical guide for ABA clinicians, including BCBAs, supervisors, and caregiver partners, on designing and evaluating descriptive assessments in everyday practice. It explains how to collect direct observations ethically and use the data to form testable hypotheses about function, guiding next steps without overstating causation. You’ll learn how to choose methods, plan sampling, ensure consent and privacy, and translate descriptive findings into clear, ethically sound decisions for intervention design.

This post explains how to design and evaluate generalization procedures in ABA to ensure skills transfer across people, settings, and time. It’s for BCBAs, clinic directors, senior therapists, and caregivers who want to turn clinic gains into real-world independence, using practical strategies like MET, programming common stimuli, NET, and generalization probes guided by baseline and maintenance data. The focus is on turning ABA data into clear, ethical decisions that promote functional outcomes and social validity.

Design and evaluate group contingencies in ABA with a practical, ethics-first approach for BCBAs, supervisors, clinic owners, and senior staff. The guide covers independent, dependent (hero), and interdependent contingencies, how to define observable targets, set criteria, and collect both group- and individual-level data. It centers on turning ABA data into clear, ethical decisions—guarding dignity, consent, and safety while adjusting plans for learners who need extra support.

This post is for practicing behavior analysts, clinic owners, and senior supervisors who want to navigate ethical uncertainty and protect clients. It describes the three domains of risk—to the practitioner, to clients and families, and to the profession—and why a single unethical act can cascade across all three. Through a practical framework, it shows how to turn ABA data and observations into clear, ethical decisions that prevent harm and strengthen professional practice.