This book review is one of my favourite books to read and share with supervisees. Clinical Judgement by Ronald Leaf, Justin B. Leaf, and John McEachin is a fairly short read. Still, it contains many details about the history of applied behaviour analysis, including pioneers in the field. Some you may have heard of, others maybe not, but their contributions to the field are significant.
Each chapter focuses on a different behaviour analytic figure. The book is written in an informal, casual style, with many of the chapter authors providing personal anecdotes from working or studying with the person the chapter is about.
The focus is on a lot of the work of Baer, Wolf, and Risley and their contribution to the field with the seven dimensions (can you guess why I love it? 😂). I found it really interesting to see the connection to the overarching framework of the seven dimensions, as all of the figures discussed in the book were working decades ago without a task list or competency checklist to guide their practice. Ensuring scientific principles, and being considerate of the seven dimensions, allowed these early behaviour analysts to ensure their work was effective, socially significant, and improved the lives of the different people they helped. It also meant that they provided the foundations and underpinnings of the work behaviour analysts are hopefully doing today.
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