Includes new chapters on screening and diagnosis of ASD, discrete trials training, pivotal response training, verbal behaviour interventions, and structured teaching approaches. Contributors also describe interventions for using cognitive behavior therapy with children and families to treat a variety of symptoms and behaviours.
In engaging language, this slim and approachable volume follows the typical sequence of delivering CBT to a client, with chapters focusing on assessment, case conceptualizations, core beliefs, behavioural strategies, problem-solving strategies, cultural responsiveness, and techniques to address distorted thinking.
Offers a framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned pattern of behavior - it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration.
Presenting one of the 'extraordinary popular delusions', this study of group psychology describes notorious witch hunts, haunted houses, the Crusades, beliefs in fortune tellers and in the magical power of alchemy, veneration of relics, bogus health cures and health scares, and other examples of human credulity and flights from reason.
This second edition of a classic text gives students what they need to apply critical reasoning when reading behavioural science research. It updates the original text with recent developments in research methods, including a new chapter on meta-analyses.
Cory F. Newman and Danielle A. Kaplan offer a comprehensive approach to supervising practitioners of cognitive-behavioral therapy, from case conceptualization to matching interventions to the individual needs of each client, to cultural competency and professional ethics.
Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior
The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. This volume focuses on the intriguing new field of geographical psychology includes research on how ecological, climatic, and psychological factors all contribute or are related to a variety of social indicators, ......
The Internet is revolutionizing the way psychologists conduct behavioral research. This book goes beyond the basics to teach readers advanced methods for conducting behavioral research on the Internet. It is designed for researchers and advanced graduate students in the behavioral sciences seeking greater technical detail about research methods.
Focuses specifically on orienting and guiding trainees in the field of behaviour analysis through the practicum and supervised experience. Clear and succinct, this book provides comprehensive information on the competencies as required by the fifth edition the BACB (R) Task List.
