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By all rights behavior therapy should be perfectly positioned to take advantage of the changes in the health care delivery system. Behavior therapy is empirically oriented and interested in efficient and effective treatment. It has developed and validated numerous treatment techniques. It has a long tradition of taking clients and client values on their own terms, instead of imposing the views of the therapist. This means that behavior therapists do not feel that they have failed if they do not dig up hidden problems the clients did not even know were there. Behavior therapy has never been guild-oriented-it has always been interested in developing technology that can be delivered inexpensively or even given away.