The merits of behavior modification are being debated with vigor and great emotion at conventions, in professional journals and in the mass media. Behavior modification procedures are being adopted or adapted in clinical psychology, education, psychiatry, special education in penal in stitutions, military and industrial training programs, remedial education, psychotherapy. Since pediatricians may be asked to advise or to work with those who are using behavior modification procedures, they should know what it is, how it originated, its current status and likely future.
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