Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy: Improving the Human Condition

✍ Scribed by Joseph R. Cautela (auth.), Joseph R. Cautela, Waris Ishaq (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Series: Applied Clinical Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy presents innovative approaches to various societal problems worldwide. Contributors explore issues from diverse areas such as behavioral medicine, education, developmental disability, poverty, problematic behavior, and developmental considerations (ie., early family experiences and aging process). The volume stimulates ideas for research, prevention, and treatment, as well as for managing other modern ills including homelessness, crime, and aggression.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Medical Nonadherence....Pages 9-21
Covert Conditioning in Behavioral Medicine....Pages 23-43
The Nature of Walking....Pages 45-68
Treatment of Substance Abuse in Older Adults....Pages 69-85
Behavior Analysis and HIV Prevention....Pages 87-103
Improving Eating Habits....Pages 105-121
Memory Rehabilitation Techniques with Brain-Injured Individuals....Pages 123-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Acting to Save Our Schools (1984–1994)....Pages 137-158
A University for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 159-188
The Primacy of the Initial Learning Experience....Pages 189-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Improving the Human Condition through Communication Training in Autism....Pages 207-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
The Social Relevance of Applied Behavior Analysis and Psychological Intervention Strategies....Pages 235-259
From Aircrib to Walden Two....Pages 261-278
Perspectives on the Problem of Poverty....Pages 279-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Behavior Therapy-Generated Insight....Pages 301-314
Some Applications of Behavioral Principles to Sport and Exercise Enhancement....Pages 315-335
Training the Client to Be Empathetic....Pages 337-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
The Making of a Stable Family....Pages 357-382
Putting the Gold Back in the Golden Years....Pages 383-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Wisdom as the Key to a Better World....Pages 403-420
Afterword....Pages 421-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-447

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology; Sociology, general