ABSTRACT
Emergence is a term used frequently in evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and embryology. These disciplines describe, and sometimes try to explain, phylogeny, ontogeny, and their interaction. Much of phylogeny and ontogeny appears to be relatively complex but to be growing systematically from relative simplicity. Psychotherapy increasingly combines pharmaco- and non pharmacotherapies. It is important to examine the rationales for that combination. A long-standing value in education and therapy is that behavior changes accomplished should endure after the intervention stops, as if the intervention created or refined a self-regulatory skill that maintained those changes. Apparently, most cognitive psychologists expect participants to induce the rules of generalization, and most behavior analysts expect to teach the participants those rules. The most likely parallel between cognitive behavior therapy and behavior-analytic therapy appears to emerge from those conceptualizations in which therapeutic gains depend on client-managed instead of therapist-managed contingencies.
