Recently added articles from Behavior and Social Issues:

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE

Oct 01, 2007; Wong, Stephen E ... ABSTRACT: Scientific discoveries and technological advances are achieved through the expenditure of human and material resources. Clinical research and program development in mental health services are no exceptions. In the present rejoinder to Dr. Wakefield's second critique, this point ...

EDITORIAL: THE PROBLEM WITH EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

Oct 01, 2007; Mattaini, Mark A ... The basic aim of science is theory. Perhaps less cryptically, the basic aim of science is to explain natural phenomena. (Kerlinger, 1986, p. 8) Within many helping professions, there is a powerful movement at present toward evidence-based practice as a process, and relying on ...

IS BEHAVIORISM BECOMING A PSEUDOSCIENCE? REPLIES TO DRS. WYATT, MIDKIFF AND WONG

Oct 01, 2007; Wakefield, Jerome C ... ABSTRACT: Wyatt and Midkiff (2006a) and Wong (2006a) argued that the eclipse of token economy treatment for schizophrenia was due not to scientific judgments but to the biological politics of the mental health field. I argued that the treatment's fate was due to its own limitations, ...

ARE WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, ASIANS, AND SOUTHERN EUROPEANS INHERENTLY INFERIOR TO NORTH-EUROPEAN MALES? A HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM-A CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL DISGRACE-AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING "MENTAL ILLNESS"

Oct 01, 2007; Malott, Richard W ... ABSTRACT: Biological determinism is the view tht biological or genetic factors are the main or even the sole cause of important behavioral differences between people, even when those behavioral differences involve complex behavior-environment interactions. However, biological determinism ...

BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC APPROACHES FOR RECRUITING INDIVIDUALS TO COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION PROGRAMS

Oct 01, 2007; Watanabe-Rose, Mari; Sturmey, Peter ... ABSTRACT: A number of primary-intervention studies with typical adults and children in open-community settings have been conducted in the area of applied behavior analysis. For example, communities and researchers have attempted to reach out to certain populations by designing and ...

BIOLOGISM IS BEHAVIOR: A COMMENTARY ON WONG AND WYATT AND MIDKIFF

Oct 01, 2007; Holman, Gareth I; Kohlenberg, Robert J ... ABSTRACT: In response to Wong (2006) and Wyatt and Midkiff (2006), we argue that behaviors related to biologism-i.e., believing that biological explanations are more explanatory than they really are-and other aspects of biological psychiatry are susceptible to behavior analysis, and we ...

PSYCHIATRY'S THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR, NON-EMPIRICAL REACH FOR BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS

Oct 01, 2007; Wyatt, W Joseph; Midkiff, Donna M ... ABSTRACT: This is our third article in a series that began with a special issue of Behavior and Social Issues in 2006. Here we briefly review our central points from the first two articles. First is that over the past thirty-five years, claims of biological causation of mental and ...

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN ALTERNATIVE TO WONG'S (2006) VIEW OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY

Oct 01, 2007; Cautilli, Joseph ... The history of behavior analysis and schizophrenia is a very long and interesting one (Wong, 2006). In addition, the corresponding influence and power of biological psychiatry is also interesting as pointed out by Wyatt and Midkiff (2006). When studied as a behavioral problem, schizophrenia is ...