Abstract
During the past 15 years, several prominent behavior therapists have urged practitioners to incorporate useful elements of other therapeutic approaches into their own clinical repertoires. A recently developed sociological method for group study called SYMLOG is suggested as a means for bringing elements of psychoanalytic and humanistic techniques into behavior therapy. Numerous applications of SYMLOG are discussed. The new social psychological system is useful for both individual behavior therapy and behavior therapy in groups. In addition, SYMLOG may be used to facilitate social psychological comparisons between the methodologies of various orientations to therapy.
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