Behaviour Therapy: Technology or Psychotherapy?
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Behaviour Therapy
- Vol. 5 (1) , 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.1080/16506077609456067
Abstract
Technique-oriented research has predominated. Individual orientation is essential to the achievement of long term behavioural change. Behavioural analysis is based on a hypothetico-deductive interview model and is also aimed at uncovering the underlying behavioural patterns which may maintain a present problem. Symptomatic treatment is seldom effective in isolation. A dynamic approach based on learning principles puts behavioural psychotherapy forward as a re-education process. The medical model is seen as irrelevant to behavioural psychotherapy which must rely extensively on a flexible innovative individually oriented approach.Keywords
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