Unification, Hybridization, Eclecticism, Separatism, and Plaud and Eifert's From Behavior Theory to Behavior Therapy: Critical Comments and a Position Statement

ABSTRACT

This is part review and part conceptual article. With respect to review, Plaud and Eifert have selected chapter authors (including themselves) who follow the editors' declared goal of deriving their behavior therapy from behavior theory. The editors set forth the goal of integration of different behavioral frameworks. On the second account, especially, the various chapters succeed to differing extents in ways valuable to consider. These two goals are treated as important features that enhance the book generally. Various conceptual points are made concerning behavior therapy's development, focusing on comparing behaviorisms, especially radical behaviorism and psychological behaviorism. The behaviorisms are considered in terms of how they have contributed to behavior therapy's origins and in how they can contribute to the field's present and future advancement.

KEYWORDS:

• Behavior theory
• behavior therapy
• Plaud and Eifert review