Applied Behavior Analysis: Principles & Procedures for Modifying Behavior provides today's students with a handbook to help them design and conduct interventions to modify behaviors when they enter professional careers. This text will serve as a resource for students who plan to become behavior analysts to design and conduct interventions to change clients’ behaviors.
Author, Ed Sarafino provides an understanding of the fundamental techniques of applied behavior analysis by presenting its concepts and procedures in a logical sequence and giving clear definitions and examples of each technique. The text will guide students to learn,
- how to identify and define the behavior to be changed and how a response is determined by its antecedents and consequences,
- usable, practical skills by specifically stating the purpose of each technique, describing how it is carried out, and presenting guidelines and tips to maximize its effectiveness,
- why and how to design a program to change a behavioral deficit or excess by conducting a functional assessment and then selecting and combining techniques that can be directed at the behavior itself and its antecedents and consequences, and,
- to illustrate why and how to collect and analyze data.
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Table of Contents:
PART I Introducing Applied Behavior Analysis 1
Chapter 1 What Is Applied Behavior Analysis? 1
Chapter 2 Identifying and Assessing Target Behaviors 19
Chapter 3 Using Data and Research Methods in Behavior Analysis 37
Chapter 4 Some Areas of Effective Application 63
PART II Basic Operant Principles 78
Chapter 5 Reinforcement: Positive and Negative 78
Chapter 6 Extinction 93
Chapter 7 Punishment 104
Chapter 8 Antecedents: Stimulus Control 119
Chapter 9 Motivation 132
PART III Methods to Establish New Operant Behaviors 143
Chapter 10 Shaping 143
Chapter 11 Shortcut Stimulus Control Methods 154
Chapter 12 Chaining Behaviors 166
PART IV Methods for Modifying Operant Behaviors 177
Chapter 13 Functional Assessment and Program Design 177
Chapter 14 Managing Antecedents 198
Chapter 15 Using Basic Reinforcement Procedures to Increase a Behavior 212
Chapter 16 Using Advanced Reinforcement Procedures to Increase a Behavior 228
Chapter 17 Using Extinction, Differential Reinforcement, and Habit Reversal to Decrease a Behavior 247
Chapter 18 Using Time-Out and Response-Cost Punishment to Decrease a Behavior 261
Chapter 19 Using Positive Punishment to Decrease a Behavior 273
Chapter 20 Maximizing and Maintaining Operant Behavior Changes 287
PART V Respondent Behaviors and Ways to Change Them 306
Chapter 21 Respondent Conditioning 306
Chapter 22 Changing Respondent Behaviors 320
PART VI Specialized Topics in Behavior Analysis 339
Chapter 23 Biofeedback 339
Chapter 24 Behavioral Contracts and Self-Management 348
Chapter 25 Token Economies 360
Chapter 26 Rule-Governed and Verbal Behavior 374
PART VII Current Concerns and Future Issues 383
Chapter 27 Dilemmas and Ethics 383
Chapter 28 Future Challenges for the Field and You 395
Glossary 403
References 411
Author Index 451
Subject Index 461
