RBT (Registered Behavior Technician) — All Questions
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52 questions
During a home session, a client's mother raised her voice at the client twice while RBT Priya was present. Priya must document the session. Which entry is BEST?
- a.Caregiver raised her voice toward the client twice during the session's transition periods.✓
- b.Caregiver was harsh with the client and undermined the technician's work during transitions.
- c.The home environment was tense today, which made it hard to run the transition programs.
- d.Caregiver appeared angry and frustrated with the client during the transitions in the session.
(a) is correct: it describes an observable event, gives a count, and locates it in the session without characterizing the caregiver. (b) uses harsh and undermined, both of which are judgments about the caregiver rather than descriptions. (c) describes an atmosphere no one can measure and shifts into an excuse for the session. (d) labels emotional states that were inferred from appearance, not observed.
A client's babysitter tells RBT Eli that the client bit another child at the park yesterday. Eli did not see the incident. How should this appear in Eli's session documentation?
- a.It should not appear at all, because Eli did not personally observe the incident occurring.
- b.It should appear as an instance of biting added to yesterday's frequency data for the client.
- c.It should appear as a note that the client's biting is generalizing to community settings.
- d.It should appear as a report from the babysitter, attributed to her and dated accordingly.✓
(d) is correct: the RBT records what was directly observed as observation and what was told to them as a report, attributed to its source and dated, which keeps the record accurate on both counts. (a) discards information that may matter clinically simply because it was secondhand. (b) enters secondhand information into a direct-measurement data set, which corrupts the data. (c) turns a single report into a conclusion about generalization, which is an interpretation the supervisor would make.