Behavior modification (9th ed )

This ninth edition of Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It, like its predecessors, assumes no specific prior knowledge about psychology or behavior modification on the part of the reader. Those who want to know how to apply behavior modification to their everyday concerns-from helping children learn life's necessary skills to solving some of their own personal behavior problems-will find the text useful.

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It, 9e is addressed to two audiences: (a) college and university students taking courses in behavior modification, applied behavior analysis, behavior therapy, the psychology of learning, and related areas and (b) students and practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology, counseling, education, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, social work, speech therapy, and sport psychology) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavioral development.

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PREFACE

PART I THE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION APPROACH

1 Introduction

2 Areas of Application : An Overview

PART II BASIC BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES

3 Getting a Behavior to Occur More Often with Positive Reinforcement

4 Developing and Maintaining Behavior with Conditioned Reinforcement

5 Decreasing a Behavior with Extinction

6 Developing Behavioral Persistence Through the Use of Intermittent

Reinforcement

7 Intermittent Reinforcement to Decrease Behavior

8 Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time and Place: Stimulus Discrimination and

Stimulus Generalization

9 Changing the Control of a Behavior with Fading

10 Getting a New Behavior to Occur with Shaping

11 Getting a New Sequence of Behaviors to Occur with Behavioral Chaining

12 Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior Through Punishment

13 Establishing Behavior by Escape and Avoidance Conditioning

14 Procedures Based on Principles of Respondent Conditioning

15 Respondent and Operant Conditioning Together

16 Transferring Behavior to New Settings and Making It Last: Generality of

Behavior Change

PART III CAPITALIZING ON ANTECEDENT CONTROL PROCEDURES

17 Antecedent Control: Rules and Goals

18 Antecedent Control: Modeling, Guidance, and Situational Inducement

19 Antecedent Control: Motivation

PART IV DEALING WITH DATA

20 Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations

21 Direct Behavioral Assessment: What to Record and How

22 Doing Research in Behavior Modification

PART V PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE BEHAVIORAL PROGRAMS

23 Functional Assessment of the Causes of Problem Behavior

24 Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Behavioral Program

25 Token Economies

26 Helping an Individual to Develop Self-Control

27 Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Self-Directed Coping Methods, and ACT Therapy

28 Areas of Clinical Behavior Therapy...