ABSTRACT
Newsom and Kroeger (chap. 24, this volume) provide an excellent overview of the genesis, principal players, organizations, and tactics of the nonaversive treatment movement. Perhaps no other event more clearly illustrates the movement’s willingness to dismiss science and reasonableness and play hard ball than its actions surrounding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference (CDC) on the Treatment of Destructive Behaviors in Persons with Developmental Disabilities in 1989.
