Legal and Ethical Issues
At the same time there was a growing concern for patient rights. The right to have their personal properties, basic comfort and freedom of choice of treatment constrained the possibilities for token economies. In addition ethical and personal concerns of staff members arose: is it ethically justified to use cigarettes as back-up reinforcers, is it human to rely on ‘reward and punishment’ as means for treatment (behavior modification often is reduced to this by opponents), isn’t sincere human contact much more valuable and effective, isn’t human interaction reduced to trade, isn’t this manipulating people?
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