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Peer reviewedKitchener, Richard F.; Ward, L. Charles – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
The view that behavior therapists are ethical relativists is challenged. Behavior therapists hold no philosophical positions that preclude justification of ethical principles, but they must be "ethical skeptics." In response, it is argued that there is no basis for ethical skepticism or for this philosophical defense of behavior therapy.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Beliefs, Counseling Theories, Cultural Context
Download full textG. Allan Roeher Inst., Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
This examination of the use of aversive techniques as a form of "therapy" for people with mental handicaps includes 12 articles by specialists who argue that the use of aversive procedures is socially, ethically, legally, and scientifically untenable as well as 3 ancedotal case studies by a patient advocate and 2 personal accounts by…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
