Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Assuming no prior knowledge of behaviour modification or psychology, this widely-adopted text offers students personal, hands-on experience with the principles of behaviour modification and their application to everyday concerns from helping children learn life's necessary skills to solving some of their own personal behaviour problems. *NEW-Adds/expands/updates coverage of key topics to reflect recent developments in the field, e.g.: - Parenting and gerontology. - Establishing operations. - Concurrent schedules and the matching law. - Teaching independent use of prompts in chaining procedures. - Conceptual behavior, equivalence classes, and behavioral momentum. - The causes of emotions. - The distinction between functional assessment and experimental functional analysis. - The treatment of habit disorders. *NEW-Features two new lead cases and provides additional examples to better illustrate the application of principles in everyday life with adults as well as children (versus the way these principles have been harnessed by therapists to change behavior), e.g.: - Distinguishing between the reinforcement schedules for reducing behavior: DRL, DRO, and DRI. - The nature of escape and

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I The Behavior Modification Approach
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Areas of Application: An Overview
• 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 Types of Intermittent Reinforcement to Decrease Behavior
• 8 Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time and Place: Stimulus Discrimination and Stimulus Generalization
• 9 Developing Appropriate Behavior with Fading
• 10 Getting a New Behavior to Occur: An Application of Shaping
• 11 Getting a New Sequence of Behaviors to Occur with Behavioral Chaining
• 12 Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior through Punishment
• 13 Establishing a Desirable Behavior by Using 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
• III Some Preliminary Considerations To Effective Programming Strategies
• 17 Capitalizing on Existing Stimulus Control: Rules and Goals
• 18 Capitalizing on Existing Stimulus Control: Modeling, Guidance, and Situational Inducement
• IV Dealing With Data
• 19 Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations
• 20 Direct Behavioral Assessment: What to Record and How
• 21 Functional Assessment of the Causes of Problem Behavior
• 22 Doing Research in Behavior Modification
• V Putting It All Together
• 23 Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Treatment Program
• 24 Token Economies
• 25 Helping an Individual to Develop Self-control
• 26 Systematic Self-desensitization
• 27 Cognitive Behavior Modification
• 28 Areas of Clinical Behavior Therapy
• VI A Historical Perspective And Ethical Issues
• 29 Giving It All Some Perspective: A Brief History
• 30 Ethical Issues
• Glossary
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index