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Ethics and Behaviour Modification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

H. Gordon Deakin
Affiliation:
(B.A.B.P. Working Party)
Howard Lomas
Affiliation:
(B.A.B.P. Working Party)
Andrew Mathews
Affiliation:
(B.A.B.P. Working Party)
Laurence Tennant
Affiliation:
(B.A.B.P. Working Party)

Extract

Behaviour modification or therapy is taken to refer to procedures having the explicit aim of effecting a therapeutic change in the observable behaviour of an individual or group, which is in the long-term interests of the well-being or health of that individual or group, as far as these do not conflict with the interests of society as a whole.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1975

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