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Behavior Modification and Normalization in Conflict? [and] Self-Injurious Behavior, Behavioristic Responses, and Social Role Valorization: A Reply to Mulick and Kedesdy.
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Jacobson, John W.; Wolfensberger, Wolf – Mental Retardation, 1989
Two responses are presented to a paper on treatment of self-injurious behavior by J. Mulick and J. Kedesdy. The responses discuss whether conflicts exist between normalizing care practices and behavior analytic methods, and describe social role valorization as a theoretical system with extensive empirical support, grounded in social and behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Theories, Mental Retardation
The AAMR Position Statement on Aversive Therapy: The Controversy.
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Mental Retardation, 1988
A survey of 55 Louisiana members of the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) indicated disagreement with an AAMR position statement condemning inhumane forms of aversive therapy. AAMR is urged to reconsider its position concerning the scope of aversive therapy, need for further research, and use of aversive therapy with some…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Conditioning
Self-Injurious Behavior, Its Treatment, and Normalization.
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Mulick, James A.; Kedesdy, Jurgen H. – Mental Retardation, 1988
The article explores the paradoxical relationship between normalization ideology and behavior analysis as reflected in techniques used in the treatment of self-injurious behavior (SIB) in mentally retarded individuals. Ideology should be evaluated carefully for its effects on science policy to prevent undesirable limits on research and treatment.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management