SUPERVISION · BCBA FIELDWORK
Supervising aspiring behavior analysts: from fieldwork to clinical reasoning
Supervisión de aspirantes a BCBA: del fieldwork al razonamiento clínico
About this course
Supervising fieldwork requires experiences that develop clinical judgment and records that describe what actually occurred. This course teaches supervisors to connect eligible hours, observations, and work products with demonstrated competencies. The goal is to prepare professionals who can explain a decision, recognize insufficient information, and revise recommendations without compromising client welfare.
Explore applicable 2026 and 2027 fieldwork requirements, restricted and unrestricted activities, individual and group supervision, client observation, and documentation. Ten educational tracking tables include completed examples and downloadable CSV files. Practice clinical reasoning, competency-based feedback, ethical decision-making, and readiness assessment through eight modules and five fictional consolidation cases.
What you will learn
- Verify supervisor and trainee requirements before starting the fieldwork relationship.
- Distinguish requirements applicable in 2026 and to 2027 applications and plan a documented transition.
- Classify restricted and unrestricted activities without conflating independent and supervised hours.
- Calculate percentages, contacts, client observation, and cumulative totals using reconciled records.
- Design unrestricted activities that produce analysis and decisions relevant to real clients.
- Teach integration of data, scientific evidence, preferences, and limitations when justifying clinical decisions.
- Use observation, behavioral skills training, and feedback to assess competencies and supervisor supports.
- Protect consent, confidentiality, equity, and competence boundaries during training.
- Adjust supports and assess generalization without equating completed hours with readiness to practice.
Course outline
- Build the supervisory relationship and an individualized curriculum: 20 minutes
- Apply fieldwork requirements and navigate the 2027 transition: 30 minutes
- Track hours and verify their traceability: 40 minutes
- Design unrestricted activities that develop clinical reasoning: 20 minutes
- From data to functional hypotheses and clinical decisions: 25 minutes
- Assess competence and measure the quality of supervision: 25 minutes
- Ethical, accessible, and culturally responsive trainee supervision: 20 minutes
- Build readiness, generalize reasoning, and ensure continuity: 20 minutes
200 planned instructional minutes, plus approximately 20 minutes of case consolidation and 20 minutes for the final assessment. Estimated total: 240 minutes.
Complete all eight modules and their 40 multiple-choice practice questions, answer the ten consolidation questions across five fictional cases, and pass the 20-question final assessment with at least 16 correct answers (80%). Answer or decline each of the five ungraded course-evaluation questions, then confirm your legal name and BACB certification number to generate your PDF diploma bearing Dalgis’s signature.
Switch between English and Spanish within the course. Your progress and earned diploma are linked to your Bhavioral Academy account. There are no timers or required waiting periods.
Primarily for BCBAs and BCBA-Ds supervising aspiring BCBAs. BCaBAs may study the content, but this course does not authorize them to supervise BCBA fieldwork. It does not award fieldwork hours or replace the initial eight-hour supervisor training. Educational tables supplement the applicable official BACB forms. Cases and example records are fictional. Sources were reviewed October 9, 2026; verify the requirements applicable to the trainee’s certification application.
$30.00
Credit: 4 Supervision Learning CEUs
Category: Supervision · 0 General · 0 Ethics
Instruction: 200 planned minutes
Case consolidation: Approximately 20 minutes
Final assessment: Approximately 20 minutes
Estimated total time: 240 minutes
Format: Asynchronous online
Languages: English and Spanish
Audience: Primarily BCBAs and BCBA-Ds
Instructor and ACE Provider
Dalgis Salgado Pinal, BCBA
Individual ACE Provider IP-25-11390
Clinical Director · Bhavioral Corporation
Enrollment is open
Create an account or sign in to Bhavioral Academy, make a one-time payment of $30, and access the course.
Switch between English and Spanish within the course. Your progress is saved in your Academy account.