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"Covering both applied research and clinical intervention techniques, Kazdin's text will show you how behavior-change principles can affect a wide range of behaviors, including psychological and medical problems, academic performance, self-care skills, and safety. Topics include helping parents and children meet the challenges that emerge over the course of development; fostering behaviors of social concern, such as parenting, child care, education, energy conservation, and traffic safety; fostering behaviors that are effective in preventing, treating, and managing AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and other diseases; and applying behavior modification principles to entire school systems, entire businesses, and so on."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. ix)
• About the Author (p. xiii)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• Behavior Modification and its Key Characteristics (p. 3)
• Two Case Illustrations (p. 8)
• Foundations of Behavior Modification (p. 15)
• Contemporary Behavior Modification (p. 25)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 29)
• 2 Principles of Operant Conditioning (p. 33)
• Contingencies: The ABCs of Behavior (p. 34)
• Antecedents of Behavior (p. 35)
• Behaviors (p. 43)
• Consequences of Behavior (p. 50)
• Additional Principles and Concepts (p. 59)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 63)
• 3 How to Identify, Define, and Assess Behavior (p. 67)
• Identifying the Goal of the Programs (p. 68)
• Defining the Target Behavior (p. 73)
• Conducting Observations (p. 91)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 97)
• 4 Functional Analysis: From Assessment to Intervention (p. 101)
• Characteristics and Elements of Functional Analysis (p. 102)
• Methods of Assessment (p. 105)
• Hypothesis Testing and Intervention (p. 110)
• Evaluation and Special Considerations (p. 116)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 120)
• 5 How to Evaluate a Behavior Modification Program (p. 123)
• Basic Characteristics of Single-Case Designs (p. 125)
• Single-Case Experimental Designs (p. 130)
• Group Designs (p. 145)
• Evaluating the Data (p. 150)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 154)
• 6 Positive and Negative Reinforcement (p. 157)
• Positive Reinforcement (p. 158)
• Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Reinforcement (p. 177)
• Negative Reinforcement (p. 194)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 199)
• 7 Punishment (p. 203)
• Presentation of Aversive Events (p. 205)
• Withdrawal of Positive Consequences (p. 210)
• Punishing Consequences Based on Effort (p. 217)
• Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Punishment (p. 224)
• Side Effects of Punishment (p. 229)
• Characteristics of the Punishment Process (p. 233)
• Controversy: Punishment and its Use (p. 235)
• When and How to Use Punishment (p. 238)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 240)
• 8 Extinction (p. 243)
• Extinction of Positively Reinforced Behavior (p. 244)
• Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Extinction (p. 245)
• Characteristics of the Extinction Process (p. 249)
• Applications of Extinction (p. 253)
• When and How to Use Extinction (p. 257)
• Extinction of Negatively Reinforced Behavior (p. 259)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 263)
• 9 Special Technique Variations to Enhance Performance (p. 267)
• Rechecking the Contingencies and Their Implementation (p. 269)
• Contingency Contracts (p. 280)
• Group-Based Programs (p. 286)
• Peer-Administered Contingencies (p. 293)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 297)
• 10 Self-Control Techniques (p. 301)
• Interest in Self-Control (p. 302)
• Techniques of Self-Control (p. 307)
• Strengths and Limitations (p. 327)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 330)
• 11 Cognitively Based Treatment (p. 333)
• Background (p. 335)
• Treatment of Distorted or Deficient Thought Processes (p. 338)
• Imagery-Based Treatments (p. 349)
• Modeling (p. 356)
• Combined Techniques (p. 358)
• Current Status and Issues (p. 362)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 366)
• 12 Response Maintenance and Transfer of Training (p. 369)
• Response Maintenance (p. 372)
• Transfer of Training (p. 373)
• Programming Response Maintenance and Transfer (p. 374)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 392)
• 13 Social, Ethical, and Legal Contexts (p. 395)
• The Social Context of Treatment (p. 396)
• Ethical and Legal Contexts (p. 411)
• Least-Restrictive-Alternative Doctrine (p. 416)
• Ethical Guidelines and Protection of Client Rights (p. 420)
• Summary and Conclusions (p. 425)
• 14 Current Issues and Future Directions (p. 429)
• Scope of Applications (p. 430)
• Challenges and Contexts (p. 432)
• Current Directions in Intervention Research (p. 440)
• Closing Comments (p. 446)
• Glossary (p. 449)
• References (p. 467)
• Author Index (p. 493)
• Subject Index (p. 501)