symptom substitution

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what have critics argued?
behaviourist therapies fail to treat possible underlying causes
why do behaviourist therapies fail to treat underlying causes?
approach believes that maladaptive behaviour is the disorder & therfore no underlying causes to be treated
what does this mean?
original symptoms may be removed (e.g. alcohol addiction) but new symptoms appear in different forms (e.g. gambling addiction)
why does this happen?
underlying causes that has not been identified (e.g. some ppl turn to addiction as means of escaping?