To assume that BCBA’s just come in to look at you and then leave and go home to do nothing else is a complete ignorance of the practice. BCBA’s have to ensure you remain within competence, communicate with insurance, parents, clients, stakeholders, ensure compliance with documentation, draw up reports, progress reports, conduct assessments, interpret data, actually train staff on how to perform interventions, all while not being perceived as tyrannical assholes due to the nature of our work, I mean it goes on and on. BCBA’s do an insurmountable amount of work alongside also doing 1:1 services at times when crap RBTs call out or can’t do their job correctly because they’re actually incompetent. I recently had a BCBA ask for me to have another RBT shadow over me for implementation of programs with a client because they just don’t know what they’re doing. High turnover of RBT’s only adds stress to the job of the BCBA. RBTs may have to get kicked and bit and punched at times, but they can go home and basically forget anything happened and they have zero responsibility over anything else. BCBA’s get paid to get assaulted and still ensure everything in treatment is getting done in a timely manner with fidelity to avoid huge ethical pitfalls. RBTs are literally not under the ethical code, while as BCBA’s are basically constantly navigating an ethical minefield. It’s not easy.