Solution-Oriented Life: A Journey to Imperfect Fluency

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Questions - REBT and Behavioral Principles

From: Emily Garnett
Date: 17 Oct 2007
Time: 22:29:39 -0500
Remote Name: 71.61.186.97

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Good evening. I am currently a graduate student in SLP, but my undergraduate degree in actually in psychology. I spent my time in a behavior analysis lab, however, working with children who exhibit severe problem behavior and learning the principles of behavior as taught by Skinner. One of my current professors likes to tease me that I see life as one big SRR! (Don’t worry, he is not exactly correct in that.) My question for you is related to psychology. I never had much experience (other than coursework) in other areas of psychology, as our department was very behavioral (West Virginia University). I researched REBT somewhat, as I did not know very much about it, and it seems like a very interesting way to approach stuttering. In my stuttering course we have learned that operant conditioning is not responsible for the core behaviors of stuttering, but does play a role in the acquisition of the secondary behaviors. I guess I am curious as to your feelings about operant learning. It is a very powerful tool, as are a lot of the principles in REBT. Do you find any means of incorporating both? Thank you!


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