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In delineating the rights due to all persons receiving treatment, Van Houten et al. (1988) indicated that each individual has a right to the least restrictive effective procedures that are available. In further delineating this right, the authors specified that a practitioner should not employ restrictive procedures unless it could be shown that such tactics were necessary to produce safe and meaningful behavior change. On the other hand, the report stated that it was unacceptable to expose people to nonrestrictive procedures that were unlikely to work. Thus, it becomes a delicate balancing act to choose a procedure that is as nonrestrictive as possible, yet is effective enough to solve a person’s problem.
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Axelrod, S., Spreat, S., Berry, B., Moyer, L. (1993). A Decision-Making Model for Selecting the Optimal Treatment Procedure. In: Van Houten, R., Axelrod, S. (eds) Behavior Analysis and Treatment. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9374-1_8
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