Reflections on Ethics and Licensure in OBM

ABSTRACT

Ethics and certification are topics that are important for the field of OBM. Weatherly has written an important paper moving the discussion of ethical standards forward. This paper accepts Weatherly’s position that the BCBA standards provide a set of ethical codes that are relevant to OBM, but rejects the notion that licensure is appropriate to improve the ethical behavior of OBM practitioners. The author believes that a better approach is to expand the demand for OBM services with resulting improvement in the job opportunities for those who achieve accreditation.

KEYWORDS:

• Ethics
• certification
• OBM
• organizational behavior management
• organizational behavior

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.