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So something that a lot of you have likely figured out but many haven’t:
- Psych and education programs are often full of ableism. The more disability related it is, the worse it can get.
- Psych and especially education fields are often the last to change what they are doing despite having a legal requirement on practicing with evidence.
- Education programs especially love to pump their students full of misinformation on behaviorism. PBIS is based off ABA. ABA is based off behaviorism. Behaviorism is all education cares to know about mental health (and it’s not even supported by the research) 🤦. They won’t be changing course anytime soon (and yet they wonder why they have “behavior” problems in schools).
They prey on people wanting to help others and convince them that this the only way.
