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Behavior
New findings from State University of New York in the area of behavior described
April 12th, 2008
"Behavior management plans (BMPs) are temporary deprivation experiences that have been advertised as promoting the discontinuance of habitual misbehavior in institutions," researchers in the United States report. "In practice, these interventions are often invoked in retaliation or as punishment when individual inmates are uncooperative or troublesome. In settings that already offer a rock-bottom quality of life-such as segregation units in prisons-BMPs reliably call for intolerably stressful conditions that tend to compromise the mental health of persons who are subjected to these conditions," wrote H. Toch and colleagues, State University of New York. ...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-12)
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