Episode Twenty-Four - Ethics and PBS

Guest - Dr Matt Brodhead: 

Matt is an associate professor at Michigan state University and leader in ethical and professional issues in applied behaviour analysis and autism treatment. Over the past 15 years he's established multiple school-based programmes for children with autism and has provided training to teachers, related service providers and behaviour analysts nationally and internationally. Additionally, he is the author for "Practical Ethics for Effective Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder". He has also published over 50 peer reviewed articles, along with a number of book chapters and commentaries in the area of autism, social skill development, functional behaviour assessment, ethics and ABA. He serves as an associate editor for The Journal of Behavioural Education, Behaviour Analysis in Practice and The Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, and he's on the editorial boards of multiple behaviour analytic journals including JABA. Matt is recognised in the academic community as a leader in the area of ABA treatment of autism and is one of the foremost experts in the areas of ethics and professionalism  =in the practice of ABA. He is also the director of of "---- support" , a service which provides free evidence based support to caregivers of people with autism in the state of Michigan

In this episode, Matt, Paddy and Jo give advice to people who are put in situations where their organisation has asked them to (and expects them to) work with people outside their scope of competence. Matt then discusses work regarding the CCC confidence and competence checklist and his 2018 paper: Call For Discussions About Scope of Competence and Behaviour Analysis. 
Next, the talk about co-production within systems especially with the family and their wishes, and about training and making progress when becoming a behaviour analyst / over your career as a BCBA. They discuss change within the business and how to handle that (e.g. regarding mental health) and finally talk about growth in the profession.