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标题：Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavioral Services in Institutions for Mentally Retarded Persons: Diverging Paths?
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作者：Sigrid S. Glenn ; Janet Ellis ; Edward Hutchinson 等
期刊名称：Behavior and Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1064-9506
出版年度：1993
卷号：3
期号：1
出版社：Behaviorists for Social Responsibility
摘要：Diverging paths of applied behavior analysis and behavioral services for the developmentally disabled (DD) clients are examined empirically. While 75% of research articles on DD in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (1968-1993, Summer issue) focus on behavior acquisition, professionals designated as â€œbehavior specialistsâ€? report focusing primarily on deceleration objectives. Institutional administrators consider behavior analysis to be relevant to meeting both acquisition and deceleration objectives, although more relevant to deceleration objectives. Reasons for the focus of behavioral specialists on deceleration objectives lie in three areas: contingencies, establishing educational priorities in academic training programs which have resulted in a scarcity of trained behavior analysts to design and implement habilitative programs; institutional contingencies generating the separation of deceleration technology from habilitative activities; and counter-habilitative contingencies established by guidelines and regulations under which institutions operate.