BEYOND THE EFFICACY CEILING - RESPONSES TO AN IRRELEVANT SUBTITLE - COMMENTARY

Foa and Kozak (1997) appear to have been led by the irrelevant subtitl e of this special issue into discussing a number of matters unworthy o f their efforts, including the mundane observation that behavior thera py is not without failures, and the unsupported contention that behavi or therapy is in search of a theory. However, the authors draw needed attention to the fact that the cognitive contribution to behavior ther apy is not derived from experimentation and that experimental findings are not as much drawn upon as they should be in behavior therapy.