More Musings on Ethics: A Response to Weatherly (2021)

ABSTRACT

Recently, an article was published that argued for the value of ethical standards, as embodied by the BACBs professional code of conduct, in Organizational Behavior Management (OBM). In his article, Weatherly provides examples of how the code could apply to OBM practice and suggests that OBM practitioners should be wary of practicing without a license in states where behavior analysis is a licensed profession. In this brief paper I analyze the arguments put forth by Weatherly and suggest an alternative strategy for moving the discussion of ethics in OBM forward.

KEYWORDS:

• Ethics
• licensure
• regulation

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Eli T. Newcomb and Joshua K. Pritchard for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

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