B.F. Skinner said (1:28) to control the behaviour, control the environment (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kP8k_doYeGw.html), while both environment and willpower are important because they have the same "origin", balancing the using them is the most effective, so on for many polar things in our universe .
It's wrong they were trying to take the shirt off of a little boy. I would also be upset, it wouldn't make sense to a child (and barely makes sense to me). If he's in there for behavioral problems...why exactly do his back muscles need to be so closely studied...? I think he did nothing wrong there, it's creepy and he feels it.
That is why you are not a psychologist :) Let everybody do their job, I am not telling someone in McDonalds how to make a Big Mac. You will have to trust science on this or you will have to immerse yourself in studying Psychology, that is it.
Yeah, forcefully taking his shirt off and then wondering about the 'temper tantrums'. It's like they are seeing him as an object not a human being. Is that what kind of reductionism the belief in absolutism of behaviorism leads to? This reminds me, never get into a mental health institution, as you will most probably be treated there as an object.
We live in a modern world where such mechanistic view on a human behavior has won over. The view that a human is no more than the sum of its parts and experiences. Consequently a human is viewed and treated as just a mechanical part of a bigger socio-economical mechanical system. All this leaves no room and no use for humanity.
How about bringing him in a different environment. Outside this "box experiment" where he was kept. I mean like we are told that the world we are living in is "big" but we live in a limited area not seeing that bigness.
he was living in the outside world but the parents were bad and didn't know how to manage his behavior. it's a short term treatment but won't help unless the parents are educaited
What's "good boy points" is that where you get points in prison for letting someone rape you where you can than spend them on bread, chicken tendies, ect;
