Behavior Change in the Human Services
Behavioral and Cognitive Principles and Applications
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Behavior Change in the Human Services
Behavioral and Cognitive Principles and Applications
About This Book
Using a unique behavioral assessment and treatment planning framework, the updated Sixth Edition provides a systematic overview of behavioral and cognitive principles and their applications to a wide range of issues and situations encountered in human services professions. Up-to-date practice examples drawn from eight diverse case studies illustrate the range and versatility of the behavior change approach in an increasingly diverse and multicultural society, while an innovative chapter on clinical applications of behavioral and cognitive intervention techniques also addresses current influences in the field. This edition embraces the rigorous empirical foundations that have made this approach such a significant contributor to the national and international therapeutic milieu of the 21 st century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- To the Student: How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Specifying Behavior
- Chapter 2 Positive Reinforcement
- Chapter 3 Extinction
- Chapter 4 Positive Reinforcement Contingencies
- Chapter 5 Shaping and Response Differentiation
- Chapter 6 Stimulus Control
- Chapter 7 Conditioned Reinforcement and Chaining
- Chapter 8 Modeling and Imitation
- Chapter 9 Punishment
- Chapter 10 Negative Reinforcement
- Chapter 11 Respondent Conditioning
- Chapter 12 Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change
- Chapter 13 Behavioral Assessment
- Chapter 14 Goal Setting, Intervention Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
- Chapter 15 Clinical Application of Behavioral and Cognitive Intervention Techniques
- Appendix 1 Case Examples
- Appendix 2 Chapter Pretest Questions
- Appendix 3 Chapter Pretest Answers
- Appendix 4 Chapter Posttest Answers
- Appendix 5 Course Posttest Questions
- Appendix 6 Course Posttest Answers
- Appendix 7 Notational Symbols and Behavioral Diagrams
- Glossary
- Author Index
- Index
- About the Authors