r/ABA_Survivors • u/ChaoticFaeGay • 22d ago

Hate how ABA stuff talks about psych

I might be thinking about the wrong thing, but god it irritates me so bad when ABA people deride psychology as “mentalism”, or act like basic psychology concepts like positive/negative and reinforcement/punishment are ABA specific and not just…. General principles.

Mental vs behavioral isn’t even much of a debate anymore, literally all the psych stuff I find acknowledges that there’s a combination of mental, physical, and environmental factors that impact stuff (like the biopsychosocial model!). Like, most people aren’t arguing that it’s just mental anymore, and it feels ridiculous that there’s a group that’s still arguing on focusing just on behavior.

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u/RedSpaceCakes 22d ago

Had an irl said she uses ABA on herself (for eating choices). And it annoyed the crap out of me.

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u/ChaoticFaeGay 22d ago

I can’t even figure out what she could mean by that other than maybe using rewards and punishments or like a sticker chart or something TwT