Always maintain a professional demeanor while still adhering to the rules.
Although session notes might help with reviewing a client's development, data and graphs are used to show the effectiveness of an intervention. Clients, client families, the BCBA, and service funders may examine session notes and other types of documentation. These people or organizations are exclusively interested in objective behavioral observations.
A parent or guardian's approval of your use of a video or image once does not automatically imply that you can use it again. It might be against your parents' desires or have a religious or cultural significance, for all you know.
Every session should have its own set of notes. If one RBT has a client from 2 to 4 PM and another from 4 to 6 PM, each therapist should keep track of his or her own sessions.
Directly observable objects are included in objective descriptions. If physical hostility happened in this case, it would be proper to include it in the notes. However, calling a client "mad" is not a behavioral description. Angry is a term, not a personality trait. Action labels should be included in behaviors. Furthermore, claiming that a client is "over services" or "does not like this program" is subjective; we can't always tell. Instead, you may state, "I told the customer he needed to brush his teeth, and he answered, "I don't want to." This is a more impartial way of stating, "The client dislikes this program."
Subjective assessments are prone to being misinterpreted. When a client is described as "mad," it could suggest that they were aggressive, yelling, shouting, or simply entering other people's personal space. As a result, in our discipline, which aims to be a thorough, scientific investigation of human behavior, we do not prefer subjective judgements.
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Only objective observations should be included in session notes. Declaring a client "lazy" is not objective because "lazy" is a name rather than a behavior. Instead of offering subjective judgments, the therapist should focus on action verbs to convey what actually happened.
All of the alternatives listed above would be suitable to include in session notes.
Although session notes might help with reviewing a client's development, data and graphs are used to show the effectiveness of an intervention. Clients, client families, the BCBA, and service funders may examine session notes and other types of documentation.
BCBAs prioritize objective data over subjective assessments. "Extremely high" is subjective since one person's definition of "very high" may differ from another's. The same may be said for "did well" and "very driven" - we can't be sure what they mean because they're subjective.
RBTs should keep all documentation professional and objective when writing session notes. We can't be sure exactly what behaviors define a "poor mood," thus saying the learner was in a "bad mood" isn't objective.
After each session, you must take notes. Only objective information regarding the client's session should be included in the session notes.
RBTs should focus on providing objective antecedents and effects of issue conduct when describing an instance. It is not behavioral to say that the behavior was "spontaneous" or a "automatic reflex." Not internal, imaginary variables, but environmental variables that correlate with behavior must be identified.
There are various channels available for complaints. If you are doing something incorrectly or if parents or stakeholders do not like the way you deal with the client, they have the right to complain it to such channels.
RBTs are not allowed to be friends with clients on social media, much less share client-specific information on social media. RBTs should also avoid having photographs of clients on their personal phones, as this could be a breach of confidence.
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RBT Documentation and Reporting Test 4
