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The Primacy of an Independent Behaviour Therapy Community in the Evolution of Clinical Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Dennis C. Russo
Dennis C. Russo*
Affiliation:
The May Instituteand Harvard Medical School, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA
*
May Centre for Health and Rehabilitative Services, 22 Blanchard Blvd., Braintree, Massachusetts, 02184, USA
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Lovibond (1993), weaves an exciting first person narrative of the development of behaviour therapy in Australia. His paper, derived from his years of experience and leadership, provides rare insight into the people and programs which have shaped behavioural practice today. In chronicling these early years, he well and fully elucidates the historic shortcomings of the larger field of Australian clinical psychology to provide minimal standards for science or practice, to effectively evaluate its practitioners, or to be a potent, united voice for the scientist/practitioner model. To remedy these shortcomings, he proposes the development of a new entity, largely independent of traditional clinical psychology or behaviour therapy, to simultaneously address issues of science, standards, and practice.

In the remainder of this article I should like to address what I consider to be primary issues in the advancement of an experimentally based psychology applied to human problems; to frame the current issues within professional psychology in the US which are germane to Lovibond's notions; and to lobby strongly for the maintenance of a separate and independent behaviour therapy community as the basis for the practice of scientific psychology.

Type
Research Article
Information
Behaviour Change , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 13 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1993

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