Confidential-information requirements: Confidentiality and consent.
Original BCBA scenario practice question with answer explanation and wrong-choice notes. Not an official BACB exam item. Last machine check: 2026-07-05.
Difficulty: hard. Skill: analyze. Type: ethics professional judgment.
A clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
A
Delay action until the next scheduled review meeting without changing the current practice.
B
Protect the recording and share only if appropriate authorization or another permitted basis applies.
Correct answer
C
Share the material after removing the client's first name because the purpose is professional education.
D
Ask the stakeholder to decide because the stakeholder is closest to the case.
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What this question tests
Confidential-information requirements: Confidentiality and consent. in Ethical and Professional Issues, with study tags for Confidentiality and consent, Confidential-information requirements, privacy, authorization.
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Best review move
Before reading the explanation, choose an answer and name the scenario clue. If you missed it, review Confidentiality and consent and try similar questions in this domain.
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This is an original study item for BCBA Scenario Tutor, not an official BACB exam question or a copied exam item.
The decision point is: Does the answer protect consent, confidentiality, scope, documentation, and risk management before action? This item specifically tests Confidential-information requirements through a ethics-or-professional-judgment-scenario format. The key clue is in the stem facts: A clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should: Answer B is strongest because it follows this rule: Protect the recording and share only if appropriate authorization or another permitted basis applies. This follows the cited official standard(s) without relying on a generic ethics slogan. The tempting mistake is to choose a shortcut before the scenario's prerequisite is satisfied. This choice is weaker because it does not resolve the key prerequisite in the scenario: a clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should: Exam move: name the missing prerequisite first, then eliminate answers that jump to a label, a familiar procedure, a single data point, or an undocumented action.
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A clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
Trap
Common trap
This choice is weaker because it does not resolve the key prerequisite in the scenario: a clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
Next
If you missed it, review Confidentiality and consent
Then answer a few related scenarios before moving back to broad practice.
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Rule
Confidential-information requirements: Confidentiality and consent
Does the answer protect consent, confidentiality, scope, documentation, and risk management before action?
Clue
What the stem gives you
A clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
Trap
Common trap
Use video because staff know the client. This often shows up as professional audience means consent is unnecessary..
Fix
If you missed this item
Rewrite the miss as a rule: "When I see Confidentiality and consent, I must identify the relevant evidence before choosing the action." Then answer two related E domain questions without reading explanations first.
Next
Next drill
Practice 3 more questions tagged to Confidentiality and consent, then explain why each wrong answer is weaker before moving back to mixed practice.
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Why the other choices are weaker
A
Choice A
This choice is weaker because it does not resolve the key prerequisite in the scenario: a clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
C
Choice C
This choice is weaker because it does not resolve the key prerequisite in the scenario: a clinic director wants to show a recording of a client's session during a staff meeting that includes employees who are not on the authorization. The file includes 5 related notes from service week 10, and the request came from the payer representative. The BCBA should:
D
Choice D
This choice skips a professional safeguard. Ethics items usually require the safest documented action before convenience or urgency.
Study tags
Confidentiality and consentConfidential-information requirementsprivacyauthorization
This practice question is tagged to Ethical and Professional Issues. It also includes study tags for Confidentiality and consent, Confidential-information requirements, privacy, authorization.
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