Kindness, compassion and love: In defence of positive behavioural support.

This paper responds to the claim that behavioural science is underpinned by an unreflective positivisim that inevitably leads to poor and/or abusive practice. In fact, the philosophy of modern behavioural science is contextualistic and today its ideas are at the forefront of a range of compassionate, person centred therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]