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Issues for Behavioral Assessment in Psychotherapy Research

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Emerging from the application of principles surrounding behavior therapy or behavior modification, the term behavioral assessment is suggested to be an alternative to “traditional” approaches for understanding human behavior. While the demarcation between traditional and innovative approaches to behavioral assessment seemed to be quite clear at the outset (Goldfried & Kent, 1972) a variety of recent conceptual and applied reviews of the area indicate that such rigid differences are in fact illusory. Indeed, it is clear that the term behavioral assessment encompasses broad categories of conceptualization and operations and that considerable disagreement exists within the literature as to what it entails. For example, as Mash (1979) argues:

Behavioral assessment has frequently been described in contrast to traditional personality theories and therapies where intrapsychic determination, inferred and stable personality traits, individual differences, cross-situational stability of behavior, indirect behavior samples, and assessment for diagnosis rather than treatment are given greater import. In fact, some would say that we now have a better description of what behavioral assessment is not, than of what it is, and there is some truth to this suggestion. (p. 24)

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