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Ethics, Procedures and Contingency Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

John Hall
John Hall
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Department of Clinical Psychology, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
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The recognition that psychological theories, and methods of behaviour change derived from them, are value laden seems to be relatively recent. Vine (1977) has commented on the fact that ethical questions receive the least attention of any topic area in psychology examination questions. He believes that psychologists “are evidently impervious to all those many critics of psychology who object to our irresponsible methodologies, to our philosophical ignorance in recognising that data are theory-laden, and to our frequent and unrecognised prostitution of our discipline” (Vine, 1977, p.377). In view of attempts at restriction of behaviour modification practice already made in the United States and in Britain, it becomes a professional necessity, not a mere armchair luxury, to assess the ethical status of behaviour modification procedures.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1978, pp. 70 - 75
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1978

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