Originally Posted by
HuskyPup I think SMART is actually an offshoot of RR; from what I understand, the originators of SMART had a falling out with Trimpy, or such was what I recall reading when I was on the SMART boards.
But the two don't seem incomparable tome; RR seems a bit more rigid than SMART, but both are based on the 'Cognitive' school of psychology, and don't differ all that much.
IIRC, RR decided a while ago to do away with all meetings, and, understandably, people were highly pissed off about that. So, people founded SMART and I suspect they're now more well-known than RR.
As for the differences in the doctrine and tools and philosophy, I don't know enough to comment. I have only had experience with SMART.