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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Book Review: Kazdin's The Everyday Parenting Toolkit - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 31 March 2014 09:29PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 April 2014 08:10:49PM 1 point [-]

The term punishment kind of tricky in this context.

Kazdin clarifies these terms in the book. In particular he splits the behavior-changing part from the social/informational part.

In parenting, punishments are typically used incorrectly,..

See the section about punishment disadvantages in the OP.

Kazdin's does not tell parents to never use short-term grounding....

Indeed he is quite balanced on this point. The section on withholding reinforcements could have been more elaborate.