Promoting Ethical Discussions and Decision Making in a Human Services Agency: Updates to LeBlanc et al.'s (2020)...

Ethical behavior is operant behavior, evoked and maintained by environmental variables; as such, it can be taught. Behavior analysts have focused on effective ways to teach and establish ethical behavior in both individual practitioners and within organizations. Teaching people to notice ethical issues in their environment is an important first step in promoting ethical discussions and decision making. In 2022, the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) issued two revised ethics codes-one for behavior analysts and one for registered behavior technicians (RBTs). In the current article, we expand upon the work of LeBlanc et al. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 13(4), 905-913, (2020) by updating an Ethics Network and hotline submission form within a human service agency to reflect both new codes of ethics. We provide data for the first 7 months of the updated system and analyze the data for common themes. We detail the updates to our system for readers wishing to create similar infrastructure in other organizations.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40617-023-00785-1.