Functional analytic psychotherapy:
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Although initially many readers may react negatively to the radical behaviorism on which this paper is based, we believe that the widespread view of radical behaviorism as miscreant is a vestige of its theoretical, philosophical, and methodological positions that used to be at odds with the zeitgeist. A re-examination of these positions reveals a well-developed theory with explicitly defined concepts that are uncannily relevant in terms of current interests in contextualism, the therapeutic relationship, and integration. In this paper we will demonstrate that a radical behaviorally based approach to psychotherapy, functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), is a comprehensive theory that helps clinicians to be open to the potential usefulness of any therapeutic viewpoint and technique. The major question we address is, "What is the rational basis for selecting the technique which is appropriate for a particular client at a particular time?" In exploring the answers to this question, we examine the theoretical foundations of FAP, describe the five major guidelines for doing FAP, and illustrate how the principles of FAP embrace and enhance concepts and techniques from therapies as diverse as psychoanalysis and cognitive therapy. FAP offers not only translation across theoretical boundaries, an essential requirement for integrative theory, but also preserves deeper meaning and clinical implications. Most importantly, FAP calls for varied therapeutic stances and techniques that no single therapeutic orientation would predict, depending on 1) what will evoke client issues, 2) whether client problems are rulegoverned or contingency-shaped, and 3) what will be naturally reinforcing of client target behav-
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