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A child is brought to a clinic for being noncompliant. A nonbehavioral child psychologist, such as Thomas Gordon (Gordon, 1970), might ask, “who owns the problem, the parent or the child?” Gordon would probably suggest the parent “owns the problem.” To some extent, behavioral psychologists have looked at the child as “owning” the problem. That is, it is the child’s behavior that must be corrected. A more recent view is that neither the parent nor the child “owns” the problem, but that there is a problem in the family system. That is, in any unit consisting of a dyad or larger, several environmental sources, including all members of the unit, act upon the members to produce the individual’s behavior in that setting. A child’s behavior is influenced by the behavior of his/her parent(s), any siblings, and others, such as babysitters and relatives. Similarly, in school the child is affected by teachers, aides, peers, and the principal. In addition, the parents’ behavior is affected by the behavior of the child(ren), other social agents in the parents’ environment, and a host of other variables, such as current socioeconomic conditions, marital satisfaction, and more. This view of the family as a system is certainly in accord with an environmental view of the control of behavior.
Keywords
- Deviant Behavior
- Apply Behavior Analysis
- Juvenile Court
- Parent Behavioral Training
- Contingency Contracting
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Lutzker, J.R. (1980). Deviant Family Systems. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9805-9_3
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