ERIC Number: EJ1185872
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Publication Date: 2018-Aug
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Lost in Translation: A Reply to Shyman (2016)
Cox, David J.; Villegas, Andrea; Barlow, Molly A.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, v56 n4 p278-286 Aug 2018
A recently published article sought to determine the extent to which behaviorism and humanism can be reconciled (Shyman, 2016). However, the "current" conceptions of behaviorism and applied behavior analysis (ABA) used for the analysis were based on mischaracterizations, rendering moot many of the points made. Nevertheless, Shyman (2016) highlighted a very important question we believe all helping professionals should attend to: Should normalization be the focus of therapeutic goals? This response article was written to provide readers of this journal an accurate representation of behaviorism and ABA. We have also offered an alternative approach to answering the question of normalization that uses a behavior-by-behavior approach and individual client values as the deciding factors. [For Shyman's 2016 article, see EJ1116435.]
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Humanism, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Philosophy, Social Attitudes, Misconceptions
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