ABSTRACT
Providing high-quality, hands-on supervision is the most critical aspect of developing new professionals in any field. This completely revised standard requires that behavior analysts in supervisory roles must “comply with all supervisory requirements” and must first make sure that the training is within their scope of competence. Supervisors must determine how many supervisees or trainees they can take on and still provide effective supervision. Once they have a reasonable caseload of trainees, they must provide training and supervision following the necessary requirements. Topics relating to diversity must be included in the training. Supervision consists of performance monitoring, praise and feedback, and the use of improvement plans when problems with trainees arise. Behavior analyst supervisors only delegate tasks to supervisees that they are certain they can perform, and they actively evaluate their own supervisory practices. Under this new standard, supervisees should expect to receive frequent direct observation and be given precise and timely feedback in such a way that improves their performance.
