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a comprehensive, readable, and humorous critique of standard behavioral techniques which seek to control instead of understand...a rich compilation of stories and descriptions which encourage us to seek more decent ways of helping people

A rich compilation of stories and descriptions which encourage us to seek more decent ways of helping people. In this ground-breaking book, Lovett shares the importance of meeting the person with challenging behaviors on a human level. offers dignified alternatives to standard control techniques invites practitioners to enter into the same relationship with consumers that most of us treasure with our peers; ongoing, with mutual affection and regard a comprehensive, readable, and humorous critique of standard behavioral techniques which seek to control instead of understand...a rich compilation of stories and descriptions which encourage us to seek more decent ways of helping people Common-sense solutions to behavioral difficulties.

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Herbert Lovett, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts, and a program coordinator with the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire. He has worked throughout the Northern Hemisphere to promote inclusive supports in and equal access to education, work, housing, and human rights. He is the author of Cognitive Counseling and Persons with Special Needs (1985) and a past president of the Autism National Committee.

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