Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 28 - Applied Behavior Analysts and Applied Behavior Assistant Analysts (216-RICR-40-05-28) › Section 216-RICR-40-05-28.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in this Part, the following
				  terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act"
				  means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-86 entitled "Licensing of Applied Behavior
				  Analysts".
2. "Applied behavior
				  analyst" means an individual licensed to practice applied behavior analysis
				  pursuant to provisions of the Act and this Part.
3. "Applied behavior analyst aide" means an
				  individual, not licensed pursuant to the Act and this Part, who works under the
				  supervision of a licensed applied behavior analyst, who assists in the practice
				  of applied behavior analysis and whose activities require an understanding of
				  applied behavior analysis, but do not require professional or advanced training
				  in the basic anatomical, psychological, and social sciences involved in the
				  practice of applied behavior analysis.
4. "Applied behavior assistant analyst" means
				  an individual licensed who practices applied behavior analysis pursuant to the
				  provisions of the Act and this Part.
5. "Board" means the Rhode Island Applied
				  Behavior Analyst Licensing Board established pursuant to the provisions of R.I.
				  Gen. Laws §
											5-86-4.
6. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Health.
7. "Director"
				  means the means the Director of the Rhode Island Department of
				  Health.
8. "Education" means the
				  academic program pursued by the person in obtaining the bachelors, masters or
				  doctorate degree, that the programs to include formal course work, seminars and
				  practica.
9. "Practice of applied
				  behavior analysis" means the design, implementation and evaluation of
				  environmental modifications by a behavior analyst to produce socially
				  significant improvements in human behavior.
a.
				  It includes the empirical identification of functional relations between
				  environment and behavior, known as functional assessment and
				  analysis.
b. Applied behavior
				  analysis interventions are based on scientific research and the direct
				  observation and measurement of behavior and environment. They utilize
				  contextual factors, establishing operations, antecedent stimuli, positive
				  reinforcement and other consequences to help people develop new behaviors,
				  increase or decrease existing behaviors, and emit behaviors under specific
				  environmental conditions.
c. The
				  practice of applied behavior analysis expressly excludes psychological testing,
				  neuropsychology, psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, sex therapy, psychoanalysis,
				  hypnotherapy, and long-term counseling as treatment modalities. Such services
				  are provided by an individual licensed pursuant to Act and this Part only when
				  applied behavior analysis services are prescribed by a child psychiatrist, a
				  behavioral developmental pediatrician, a child neurologist or a licensed
				  psychologist with training in child psychology pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws
				   27-20.11-4.
10. "Psychologist with equivalent experience"
				  means an individual deemed to hold equivalent licensure as an applied behavior
				  analyst upon satisfying equivalency requirements through submission and
				  satisfaction of written evidence of education and relevant experience to the
				  Department pursuant to §28.5.3 of this Part.
11. "Supervised experience" means the
				  practical application of principles, methods and procedures of the science of
				  applied behavioral analysis in accordance with the requirements of
				  §§28.5.1(A)(2) of this Part (applied behavior analyst) or
				  28.5.2(A)(2) of this Part (applied behavior assistant analyst).
12. "Supervision" means that a licensed
				  applied behavior analyst is at all times responsible for supportive personnel
				  and clients. Supervision is further defined in §28.4.3 of this
				  Part.
13. "Training" means the
				  pre-professional or professional supervised experience received by the person
				  at the pre or post-doctoral level that experience to have been obtained in an
				  internship, clinic, or other similar professional setting.