Comments on "thirty years of behavior therapy . . ." and the promise of the application of scientific principles

In the summer of 1997 Behavior Therapy published a "Special Issue" titled "Thirty Years of Behavior Therapy: Promises Kept, Promises Unfulfilled". In introducing the articles Forsythe and Hawkins suggested that there are many venues in which the issues raised could be further discussed. I accept this suggestion as an invitation, and offer the following comments on one of behavior therapy's promises, that of commitment to scientific principles in evaluating the effectiveness of methods of psychotherapy.

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Howard Lipke

Lipke, H. (1999). Comments on "thirty years of behavior therapy . . ." and the promise of the application of scientific principles. the Behavior Therapist, 22(1), 11-14