The Limits of Technological Talk

Applied behavior analysts and behavior therapists have long prided themselves on their technological precision and methodological sophistication. Some even go so far as to define the field on the basis of it's commitment to the "specification of treatment in operational. . . terms" (Kazdin & Hersen, 1980, p. 287). This emphasis is a proud component of the behavioral tradition, but along with it has come a deemphasis of theoretical and philosophical concerns.