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  • Behavior Analysis
  • Professional Ethics

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  • Behavior analysts (BAs) regularly encounter ethical dilemmas in their practice.
  • Existing ethical guidelines provide a framework, but the practical decision-making process of BAs is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To qualitatively investigate how behavior analysts identify ethical dilemmas.
  • To understand the decision-making processes behavior analysts employ when facing ethical challenges.
  • To identify the resources behavior analysts utilize during ethical decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • A qualitative research approach was used.
  • The study focused on the practical experiences of behavior analysts.

Main Results:

  • The research provides insights into the practical identification of ethical dilemmas by behavior analysts.
  • Understanding is gained on the specific methods BAs use to make ethical decisions.
  • Key resources consulted by BAs during ethical decision-making were identified.

Conclusions:

  • The findings offer valuable implications for behavior analytic practitioners.
  • The study highlights areas for future research in ethical decision-making within behavior analysis.