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Risk Management in the Practice of Behavior Therapy: Boundaries and Behavior

Behavior therapy is a psychotherapy method with unique qualities from risk-management standpoint. The authors discuss some of these aspects, including directiveness, replicability, use of lay cotherapists, exposure treatments, boundary issues. Attention to these and other features of behavior therapy reduce medicolegal risks in this treatment method.

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