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Implications of functional analysis
Author(s) -
Cullen Chris
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1983.tb00590.x
Subject(s) - psychology , functional analysis , discriminative model , clinical practice , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , family medicine , gene
This brief paper is intended to amplify three points which are contained in Slade (1982) and Owens & Ashcroft (1982). They are that (i) functional relationships must be demonstrated, not merely claimed; (ii) functional relationships are likely to be complex, and clinicians should be wary of superficial analysis; and (iii) there is a distinction between discriminative stimuli and setting conditions which has important implications for clinical practice.