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The RBT credential was developed in response to various stakeholders (e.g., funders, legislators) who sought a credential for the individuals who actually make direct contact with clients.
BCBA and BCaBA supervisors must both meet identical BACB requirements for supervision of RBTs.
The authors provided examples of intervention studies (e.g., Lovaas, 1987) in which behavior technicians were trained for more than 40 h (the current minimum duration of RBT training). However, these studies were not conducted to determine a necessary training duration; they simply described the amount of training received by technicians. Consequently, the relation between treatment outcome and training duration cannot be ascertained from those studies.
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The authors are affiliated with the BACB, the organization that offers the RBT credential, which is the subject of Leaf et al. (2017).
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Carr, J.E., Nosik, M.R. & DeLeon, I.G. The Registered Behavior Technician™ Credential: A Response to Leaf et al. (2017). Behav Analysis Practice 10, 164–166 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-017-0172-1
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