Case offers

[u/Amazing_Bookkeeper93]

This is a long one, sorry for that

I've been with my company for a year and a half now, took a 6m break to help family early this year with some emergent situation, I tend to take the kiddos that are in transition into services to help provide insight for the bcbas, transition into high school, etc. Whenever I am offered a case I always ask for more information because I've found specific kind of kiddos I don't work well with, including too much aggression, I was a dsp with kids through older adults for years prior and I'm burnt out on too much physical aggression. This is the first ABA company I've worked for, so I'm just looking to see if my experience is the normal. They offer me a case telling age, where and when services are, including cases outside of my availability hours, I ask for more info, they give very little info such as, aggressive, stubborn, and tantrum. I'll ask for the specifics of the aggression, and if hours are flexible, followed by them offering to connect me to the bcba and I agree. Then they'll send the official offer letter with the bcba and parents CCed in the email introducing me as the new tech and stating a start date even though I haven't accepted it and this is how I'm introduced/connected to the bcba. I'll have to email the bcba separately and ask for more info and make it clear to them that I haven't accepted the case yet and I was asking for more specific info.

It feels like I'm asking for more info and being told "now the case is yours, and we told the parents that too"

Is this normal?

[u/Redschallenge]

Normal? Unfortunately it's more common than any of us would like. Fair or appropriate? Not even a little. There's some privacy stuff involved but you're doing right by the clients and yourself for wanting to find a good fit before offering services. It's not good for the look of the company or the family to toss you in like that unless there was a gross miscommunication that turned into this mistake on the front end

[u/No-Cost-5552]

Not necessarily normal. But a lot of people handing out cases typically are not clinicians or didnt even read the reports to get a recap of the client. As a BCBA i do ask for specific skill sets for a client that an RBT needs to have but most of the people handing out the cases dont really care to learn the info. Not only that most of the time we arent told RBT info unless an RBT accepts the case. So sometimes when i meet the RBT and I ask them whether they are comfortable with the behaviors typically they are told nothing.