​Abstract

​Successful collaboration between professionals has been proven countless times to be the most
effective, comprehensive treatment to ensure positive outcomes for clients. Licensed professionals that
abide by their code of ethics, including behavior analysts, speech-language pathologists and
occupational therapists have an ethical obligation to collaborate to best serve their clients. With an
overwhelming amount of evidence to support collaboration in our field, why is collaboration still so
difficult? What can we do to make it better? How can we learn to work together and coordinate efforts
to produce better outcomes for our clients? This presentation discusses the ethical implications of
collaboration as well as presenting common barriers to collaboration and practical solutions to those
barriers.

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Objectives​​

1.) Define collaboration and identify 3 opportunities you can effectively collaborate, as a BCBA, with
other disciplines 
2.) Develop thorough understanding of the BACBs ethics with regards to cross discipline collaboration
and how it affects your clients and their families
3.)  Identify 5 keys to successful collaboration 
4.)  Identify 3 barriers to collaboration and problem solving techniques that can be used to mitigate
these situations