PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Abusive Power And Control, Therapeutic Relationship, Uptodate
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The term behaviour modification can evoke negative reactions. We react to the idea of others controlling us and our behaviour. Ethics: standards of behaviour developed by a culture to promote its own survival a very behavioural definition. Ethical guidelines are an important source of behavioural control when immediate reinforcers influence individuals to behave in a way that leads to aversive stimuli for others. When members of the same culture learn to follow the same ethical guidelines, the guidelines exert rule-governed control over behaviour. Some argue that all attempts to control the behaviour of another individual are unethical. Behaviour modifier response: all helping professions involve some behavioural control, as part of efforts to change behaviour, even if it is not labelled as such. The reality of behaviour control on the part of professionals highlights the need for ethical guidelines. Psychologists and other therapists must abide by relevant ethical guidelines: accountability.
