Word: bri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Israel founded the BRI in 1971, he appliedSkinner's ideas to the treatment of the mentallyhandicapped, creating an elaborate system ofrewards and punishments for patients there...
Proponents of BRI's program, including parentsof patients there, say BRI is saving people'slives...
...main aversive therapy BRI uses is electricshock, delivered by a device called the GraduatedElectronic Decelerator that 58 out of BRI's 62students wear on their bodies...
Students receive shocks to stop them frommutilating themselves or from hurting others,Israel says. The Boston branch of the FDA confirmsthat the electric shock is applied for thesepurposes. The FDA has been receiving informationfrom BRI on the use of electric shocks since...
Most patients come to BRI as a lastresort, Israel says. New York regulations requirethat a student fail out of ten programs before heor she is eligible for BRI...