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This article presents a conceptual framework intended to demonstrate how the humanistic and behavioral approaches to discipline may be integrated around a set of common themes. It is argued that both approaches are intended to help caregivers achieve competence in each of three discipline “aspects”: control, tolerance, and warmth.
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I would like to thank my colleagues Thomas Cole, John Hill, Shelley Leavitt, Robert McCall, and Ivan Nye of the Boys Town Center for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. I wish to express my intellectual debt to the late Joseph B. Tavormina, whose untimely death was a loss to all caregiver educators, especially those who were fortunate enough to have known him.
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Greenspan, S. A unifying framework for educating caregivers about discipline. Child Youth Care Forum 12, 5–27 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258076
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