He was a psychologist from the University of Minnesota Medical School who had been lecturing around the country on what he called "positive approaches to dying".
Prominent advocates for people who have been abused by priests said yesterday that the bishops' draft plan for responding to the crisis of clerical misconduct included some positive approaches.
A new approach: Positive behavioural support The Institute of Applied Behaviour Analysis was founded in 1981 by Gary LaVigna and Thomas Willis to promote positive approaches of working with people who have challenging behaviour.
"The United States seeks to focus attention on progress... rather than to detour positive approaches toward a new round of negotiations" is how Watson put it shortly after arriving in Montreal last week.
Under the scheme, councils commit to reduce inequalities, integrate health and social care, promote well-being, tackle stigmatisation and discrimination on the grounds of mental health and to encourage positive approaches to the promotion of mental health in schools, colleges and workplaces.
Normative approaches that attempt to optimize some appropriate design function are popular, and the distinction between them and more conventional positive approaches is often blurred.
