Inadequate behavior analysis: The achilles heel of outcome research in behavior therapy

In contrast to clinical practice, behavior analysis has figured but little in behavior therapy outcome research. Misconception-based fears have not been separated from those based on direct emotional (autonomic) conditioning, and in the latter category little attempt has been made to distinguish and separate cases with different antecedents of anxiety that might require different treatments. As a result, practically all outcome research comparisons have involved subject groupings of uncertain and non-uniform constitution, from which few valid deductions can be made.