Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis

Carr, James, Austin, John

• Publisher: Context Press
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781608826278

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a highly functional discipline that, instead of searching for abstract, internal causes for human behavior, looks to external factors that can be influenced. Once identified, these factors can be manipulated to make meaningful, positive improvements in the lives of real people through positive behavior change. Not surprisingly behavior analysis has been applied to a wide range of human activities, from helping troubled teens to organizing industry to maximizing sports performance. ABA interventions for these diverse problems are often creative — and they tend to be effective.

In this volume, some of the field''s foremost practitioners offer their expert perspective on a range of topics within ABA. Each chapter is fully referenced and contains a set of reading objectives to facilitate deeper understanding and further discussion of its subject area. While these discussions will be of particular interest to academic behavior analysts and graduate students, clinicians and other practitioners will find the research review helpful and informative.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Foreword
• 2. Behavioral Acquisition by Persons With Developmental Disabilities
• 1. Stimulus Preference and Reinforcer Assessment Applications
• 3. The Functional Analysis Model ofBehavioral Assessment
• 4. Current Issues in the Function-BasedTreatment of Aberrant Behavior inIndividuals with DevelopmentalDisabilities
• 5. Behavior Analysis andSchool Psychology
• 6. Assessment and Treatmentof Habit Disorders
• 7. Behavioral Pediatrics: The Confluenceof Applied Behavior Analysis and Pediatric Medicine
• 8. Behavioral, Family-Style Residential Carefor Troubled Out-of-Home Adolescents:Recent Findings
• 9. Behavioral Contributions toBrain-Injury Rehabilitation
• 10. Behavioral Psychotherapy and the Rise ofClinical Behavior Analysis
• 11. Behavioral Interventions forChildren With Autism
• 12. Organizational Behavior Management inHuman Service Settings
• 13. Basic Behavioral Research and Organizational Behavior Management
• 14. Performance Analysis and Performance Diagnostics
• 15. Behavioral Approaches to Organizational Safety
• 16. Behavioral Consultation
• 17. Behavioral Sport Psychology
• 18. Organizational Behavior Management and Instructional Systems
• 19. Behavioral Approaches to College Teaching
• 20. A Futurist Perspective for Applied Behavior Analysis