The College’s Jurisprudence and Ethics Course and Assessment in Applied Behaviour Analysis (JECAABA) is a required course that focuses on legislation, regulations, standards, guidelines, and codes of ethics, applicable to the practice of applied behaviour analysis in Ontario. The College administers the JECAABA through a learning management system, LMS365, hosted by Microsoft. Only eligible applicants will be given access to the JECAABA. Once an applicant receives access to the JECAABA, the applicant has 60 days to successfully complete the course, including the assessment. Applicants who fail to complete the course within the 60-day period will lose their access to the course, including any progress made up until that date. It is the applicant’s responsibility to contact the College and request permission to re-take the course, including paying the course fee.
The JECAABA will not include questions based upon changes in legislation, regulations, standards, guidelines, and codes of ethics that occurred in the six months prior to the module’s administration.
COMPOSITION OF THE JECAABA
The course is composed of seven chapters corresponding to the content categories listed below, with “knowledge checks” interspersed throughout the chapter content. Following completion of the course chapters, applicants will complete a cumulative assessment composed of 38 multiple-choice questions developed by subject matter experts in applied behaviour analysis.
The assessment will be constructed to conform to the blueprint, below, which determines the percentage of questions that fall into a particular content category. The percentages and percentage ranges that appear in the table below were designed to reflect the relative frequency with which they are represented in the work of Behaviour Analysts.
JECAABA BLUEPRINT
| Activity | Average % of Course Content |
| Content | |
| Self-Regulation, Professionalism, and RHPA | 20% |
| Informed Consent | 15% |
| Managing Boundaries and Multiple Relationships | 15% |
| Business-Professional Practice | 10% |
| Confidentiality and Privacy | 15% |
| Service Delivery | 15% |
| Supervision, Teaching and Research | 10% |
| 100% |
Content
Content areas are domains of legislation, regulations, standards of practice, and codes of ethics relevant to the practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis. There are seven content categories, defined below. The practice of the profession includes the activities of practice, research and teaching/supervision.
Self-Regulation, Professionalism, and RHPA
Professional self-regulation, fiduciary duty, and the public interest.
Professional behaviour in the practice of the profession. Courtesy, respectfulness, civility and sensitivity in interactions with clients, students, research participants, colleagues, members of other professions and disciplines, and the public. (For example: self-monitoring, cultural sensitivity, timeliness of response, clarity and tone of communications, sensitive communication of feedback.)
The RHPA, controlled acts, regulatory processes (reactive and pro-active) to protect the public, prevention of sexual abuse. Hierarchy of rules; legislation, regulations, standards of practice, guidelines, code of ethics.
Informed Consent
Informed consent in the context of the practice of the profession, and for the release of confidential information. Includes awareness of issues with respect to vulnerable populations.
(For example: capacity, freedom of consent, adequacy of information provided, substitute decision-making, assent, use of consent forms; and knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations).
Managing Boundaries/Dual Relationships
Avoidance and management of dual and multiple relationships and the establishment and maintenance of boundaries, in the practise of the profession. (For example: conflicts of interest; unacceptable dual/multiple relationships; methods for managing dual/multiple relationships and conflicts of interest; appropriate boundaries; risk to boundaries; and knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations.) Prevention of sexual abuse of clients.
Business-Professional Practices/Quality Assurance
Appropriate business practices related to the practice of the profession. (For example: advertising; use of title; billing practices; arrangements for absences; fiscal and personnel management; mandatory reporting responsibilities as manager or partner; quality management activities; ongoing continuing education practices; accountability to the College and other regulators, including College Quality Assurance Reports, response to College inquiries; required office safety inspections.)
Confidentiality/Privacy/Mandatory Reporting
Protections, security, and exceptions regarding privacy and maintaining confidentiality, as related to the practice of the profession. (For example: limitations on information to be collected; maintaining security of collected information; ownership of and rights to access stored confidential information; protection of privacy of third parties, duty to protect/warn; mandatory reporting of a child in need of protection; mandatory reporting of sexual abuse by regulated health professionals; and knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations.)
Service Delivery
The process and procedures related to the practice of the profession. (For example: knowledge of the scope of practice of members and its relationship to other professionals; competence; risk-benefit analyses; adequacy of assessment tools and practices; awareness and appropriate management of biases and values.)
Supervision, Teaching and Research
The process, procedures and responsibilities related to the practice of the profession. For example: supervision of those about to become members of the College (supervised practice certificate of registration), members of the regulated professions, unregulated individuals providing care to clients under the supervision of a member of the College.
A resource page has been developed which lists the relevant legislation and standards for each chapter in the course. Please go here to download a copy of the resource page for future reference.
JECAABA FEE
Eligible candidates will receive a notice of when they can access the Jurisprudence and Ethics Course and Assessment in Applied Behaviour Analysis. Only eligible candidates will receive access to the course.
For the first two years after proclamation, from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, applicants who apply for a Certificate of Registration as a Behaviour Analyst Authorizing Autonomous Practice using the transitional route provisions will be eligible to take the course once the candidate has submitted an application for registration to the College and received written confirmation of eligibility.
The fee for taking the course is, in all cases, payable in advance of accessing the course. Please see Appendix A, Fees in the Registration Process, for the current fee. Applicants who fail to complete the course within the 60-day period will forfeit the fee and lose their access to the course, including any progress made up until that date. It is the applicant’s responsibility to contact the College to re-take the course and pay the access fee again.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE JECAABA
The Jurisprudence and Ethics Course and Assessment in Applied Behaviour Analysis will be administered through an LMS (Learning Management System) platform. Eligible candidates will receive an email with a link to access the course once payment has been made in the application portal.
NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS AT THE JECAABA
Candidates will have an unlimited number of attempts at the JECAABA within the 60-day period which begins when they receive access to the course. A candidate must have successfully completed all sections of the JECAABA, including the assessment, and post-course feedback form, before they receive their certificate of completion.
LANGUAGE OF THE JECAABA
The Jurisprudence module will be offered to applicants in both English and French.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY
The questions on the JECAABA are confidential and are the exclusive property of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario. Candidates will be asked to sign an acknowledgement of confidentiality before completing the JECAABA.
RESULTS OF THE JECAABA
After successful completion of all course chapters, candidates must complete a cumulative assessment made up of 38 multiple-choice questions. Candidates will have an unlimited number of attempts at the assessment during the 60-day access period, however, a score of 92% must be achieved on the assessment to complete the course.
Candidates must successfully complete all course chapters, the assessment, and the post-course survey, before receiving their certificate.