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Within recent years, there has been a phenomenal growth in the interest in behavior therapy with children. The advances in behavioral approaches is evidenced by the fact that in the 1950s, behavior modification was not even considered a major treatment technique for children (Buxbaum, 1954), and now there are several books devoted exclusively to this topic (e.g., Graziano, 1975; Mash, Hamerlynck, & Handy, 1976; Ross, 1974).
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Ciminero, A.R., Drabman, R.S. (1977). Current Developments in the Behavioral Assessment of Children. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9799-1_2
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