ABSTRACT
Behavior modification can be applied in various settings, the nature of which helps to define its subsets. Thus, behavior modification applied in clinical settings, toward clinical goals, encompasses the subset behavior therapy. Some national organizations, such as the National Society for Autistic Children, actively support behavioral programming for children, and the education of parents and professionals in behavior modification. Psychological helping, of whatever theoretical model, is based on the essential elements of the helping situation—i.e., through an at least implicit contract, a "helper" or therapist intervenes in the life of a client who seeks help, and the therapist brings to bear his particular skills to influence the client to change. Behavior therapy, according to many of its critics, "dehumanizes" and "stereotypes" human beings with its "too simplistic" view of man, a view which cannot account for all the data of neuroses and psychoses.
