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When Behavioral Compliance Becomes Coercive Treatment: ABA, PBS, Disability Rights, and the Torture Framework

 BLB  07, September 2026

Abstract Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Positive Behavior Support (PBS), and related behavioral interventions are not legally or ethically uniform practices. Some involve communication support, environmental modification, skill development, and voluntary reinforcement. Others have involved forced compliance, escape extinction, restraint, seclusion, contingent deprivation, physical prompting, punishment, and the suppression of harmless…

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