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© British Association of Social Workers

The Effectiveness of Behaviour Modification with Families

ROGER MCAULEY and PATRICIA MCAULEY

Roger McAuley is a consultant child psychiatrist at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. He received his training in Belfast and also at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Patricia McAuley is a senior social worker at Downshire Hospital, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Currently she is seconded as a part-time lecturer at the Ulster Polytechnical College. She trained in social work at Queens' University, Belfast.

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The literature would have us believe that behavioural procedures can be applied extremely effectively to a wide range of family problems. As with any other therapeutic approach there are, however, a wide range of specific and non-specific factors which will determine whether or not a behavioural approach is successful. This paper sets out to examine some of these and also attempts to draw a few conclusions about the effectiveness of behaviour modification with families, especially when it is practised in a routine clinical setting.


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