Behavior Therapy with Children

Volume 2

Heinz Eulau, Anthony M. Graziano, Anthony Graziano

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351314381
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The term behavior modification refers to the systematic analysis and change of human behavior and the principal focus is on overt behavior and its relationships to environmental variables. Behavior modification can be applied in many settings, the nature of which helps to define its subsets. Thus, applied in clinical settings, toward clinical goals, it encompasses the subset behavior therapy. In Behavior Therapy with Children, Volume 2, Anthony M. Graziano focuses on behavior therapy--specifically, the behavioral treatment of children's clinical problems.

The field of behavior modification encompasses an astonishingly wide and varied spectrum of concepts about and approaches to education, clinical problems, social programming, and rehabilitation efforts. A conceptually and technologically rich medium, it has been nourished by the psychology laboratory, the school, and the psychiatric clinic. It is an area with diffuse boundaries surrounding a highly active center, within which apparently solid landmarks have already been worn away by the dissolving action of corrective self-criticism--immeasurably aided by the catalysts stirred in by the field's many critics. The activity continues, the dynamic field boils, and the medium enriches itself.

There appears to be a tendency, particularly among new behavior therapists, to limit their focus too narrowly to the client's systems of overt behavior. In this project, psychological therapy begins with a personal, interactive social situation in which the generally expected human response of interest, sympathy, and support, is the minimum condition. Graziano maintains that these clinical sensitivity skills must be preserved in behavior therapy and enhance its important contribution to advancing the therapeutic endeavor.

Index

A-B-A studies, 320, 322-23, 324-25, 327, 329

A-B-A-B design, 119, 434, 491

Abe, K., 284

Abstraction skills, and behavior therapy, 32

Academic achievement

1. and behavior modification, 387-438, 534ff, 553ff
2. and discipline problems, elimination, 430-37

Accident-proneness, 246

Accountability, in psychotherapy, 513-28

Achievement incentives, 51ff, 71ff See also Incentive systems

Achievement Place, 4, 318, 324, 325, 348-74

Administrators, and behavior modification, 51ff, 71ff, 348ff

Advocacy models, 317

1. in science, 6

Affection, as reinforcer, 79

Affective skills, and behavior modification, 91

Aggression, 95, 115, 120, 182, 191, 193, 195, 201, 245, 276, 315-85, 457, 458

Aggressive reaction, 83

Agnew, Spiro T., 5

Alexander, A.B., et al., 247, 249, 251-58, 288

Alexander, J.F., and Parsons, B.V., 318, 328, 333, 375-86, 442

Alienation, in romantic theories, 16

Allen, K.E., and Harris, F.R., 455, 456

Allen, K.E., et al., 427

Alpha-machine, 49

Alternative adaptive behavior, differential reinforcement, 207-09

Alvord, J.R., 326, 333

American Psychoanalytic Association, 50

Analogical models, in science, 31, 46ff

Analysis, functional

1. and self-control, 530
2. in schools, 390
3. of problems, 45, 46, 119, 154-55
4. of therapy models, 10

Animal psychology, behavior modification origins, 20, 40

Animism, and deviant behavior, 15

Anorexia nervosa, 111, 246, 444, 451

Anthony, W.A., et al., 327

Anthropology and psychiatry, 19

Antisocial behavior, 95, 315-85

Anxiety, 251, 300, 301ff, 450

1. and eye contacts, 134
2. and toilet-training, 276
3. origins...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Dedication
• Introduction: Behavior Therapy with Children
• I Value Conflicts: Behavior Modification in Natural Settings
• II Behavioral Approaches to Mental Retardation
• III Modification of Psychotic Behavior
• IV Self-Stimulatory Behavior
• V Behavioral Approaches to Somatic Systems
• VI Reduction of Children’s Fears
• VII Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior
• VIII Behavioral Interventions in Schools
• IX Family Systems
• X Self-Control
• References
• Index