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#1. Glenn, a BCBA, has identified Hershey Kisses as a highly motivating edible reinforcer for his client during initial assessments. However, when Glenn suggests using chocolate, the client’s parents express significant concern about the potential health risks, specifically cavities, and explicitly state they do not want sugary treats used as reinforcers. Considering ethical guidelines for client-centered practice and the crucial input of stakeholders, how should Glenn most appropriately and professionally proceed in this situation?

Explain the reinforcing power of chocolate to the parents and proceed with its use, as it has been proven effective.

Disregard the parents’ specific concerns and use chocolate only when the parents are not present during sessions to avoid conflict.

Propose to the parents using chocolate temporarily, only while pairing it consistently with praise and tokens, with the goal of establishing conditioned reinforcers for future use.

Inform the parents that the client’s progress is paramount, and without a potent reinforcer like chocolate, intervention effectiveness will be severely limited.

The text emphasizes that BCBAs should not go against the parents wishes and that parents are involved in the treatment planning process Therefore directly using chocolate despite protests or circumventing their wishes options A and B is unethical and unprofessional While identifying alternative reinforcers is always a good practice the specific strategy highlighted in the text as a good strategy for this scenario is to request that chocolate be used temporarily each time chocolate is delivered also deliver praise and a token with the explicit aim of attempting to create some backup secondary reinforcers right some conditioned reinforcers through pairing This approach respects parental concerns by making the use temporary and strategic while also building a foundation for more sustainable nonedible reinforcers aligning with best practices for reinforcer fading and ethical stakeholder collaboration Option D is manipulative and disregards parental rights

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