The nine core ethical principles are the factors which describe the behavior analysts. These values include Do No Harm to other, According to Dignity you have, Respecting Autonomy of nature, Benefiting Others people involved, Being Just on your actions, Being Faithful to yourself and others, Treating Others with Caring and Compassion always, Pursuit of Excellence in anything you do, as well as Accepting Accountability. The values are in place to protect the people that we work with and are not just in place for behavior analysts (Bailey, & Burch, 2016). We are going to discuss only two core ethical values that will be explained here are Being Just and Do No Harm.
“ Do no harm ” as a core ethical principle is part of the Hippocratic Oath that physicians, psychologist, psychiatrist, and even social workers take (Bailey & Burch, 2016). It means that you will not harm the client/patient in any way if it can be helped. There are many ways that a behavior analyst could cause harm, both intentionally and unintentionally. Intentional harm could include restraining a client or even abusing the client. Unintentional harm could be not having properly trained staff doing assessments and collecting data, or not having the right behavior plan for the client (Bailey & Burch, 2016). In my career path, I have chosen to work with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to do no harm means a lot of things in this line of work. You have to make sure not physically harm them, but you also have to make sure that you do not harm them mentally as well.
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Another core ethical principle is ‘Being just.’ Being just is to handle others how you also want to be treated. As a behavior analyst, you deal with a lot of different behaviors, and you have to figure out how to best intervene in them that causes no harm to the client but also shows them respect and treats them with dignity. Where I work, we have to take a safety training course called QBS. In this training course, we taught how to restrain a client if it is necessary (only used when the client is a danger to self or others and is part of the treatment plan (Bailey & Burch, 2016). During training, we each had to be restrained, and I would never want to have to restrain a child in that way.
Reference
Bailey, J. S., & Burch, M. R. (2016). Ethics for Behavior Analysts (3rd ed.). New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
