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Applied Behaviour Analysis and Normalization: New Carts for Old Horses? A Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Steve Baldwin
Affiliation:
Consultant Psychologist, General Hospital, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Polytechnic Southwest.

Abstract

True rapprochement attempts should be welcomed as initiatives to promote understanding between different theoretical positions and in the interest of parsimony. Persuasion attempts to achieve behaviour change, based on the moral imperative, should be inspected very closely indeed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1989

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