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Normalization and Applied Behaviour Analysis: Values and Technology in Services for People with Learning Difficulties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Eric Emerson  and
Peter McGill
Eric Emerson
Affiliation:
Institute of Social and Applied Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury
Peter McGill
Affiliation:
Institute of Social and Applied Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury
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It is argued that normalization and applied behaviour analysis represent the most significant developments of the past two decades in approaches to the design of services for people with learning difficulties. Problems in translating these approaches into practice have been compounded by an apparent conflict between them. The nature of this conflict is examined and suggestions for a rapprochement are made.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 101 - 117
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1989

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