The purpose of behavioral assessment for clinical treatment is to determine target behaviors, discover the antecedents and consequences controlling those behaviors, and monitor the effects of manipulating the controlling elements. One of the most significant sources of information for behavioral assessment can be self-observation and self-recording by the client. Self-report forms have many benefits: they save time; completion of the forms may be done outside the therapeutic session; comparisons of responses to the questionnaires or forms can be made at various stages of treatment; a questionnaire can act as a discriminative stimulus for the client in observing his or her own behaviors. Most of the forms in these volumes are self-report forms; in addition, there are recording forms and therapy guidelines for both therapist and client. Volume 1 includes four types of forms: General Forms (identification of maladaptive behaviors), Process Forms (target behaviors, motivation, treatment plan), Techniques Forms (therapeutic strategies), and Specific Forms (provide specific information on target behaviors). Permission to copy forms included.

Behavior Analysis Forms for Clinical Intervention, Vol. 2

Joseph R. Cautela

Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies

The 20th century saw major advances in the quality of life for most of us. For many, however, there was little progress. Children with autism and many severe developmental disorders often ended up in large state run institutions with little hope of ever leaving. Our educational system left many students unable to read. Cars were becoming safer but drivers lagged behind. Treatments for breast cancer were advancing but too often they were not started early enough to save the life of the patient. Management practices in many organizations were reminiscent of the early industrial revolution. These and other problems called for a new approach to understanding behavior. Fortunately, a small group of scientists met this challenge and a new science of behavior emerged. Armed with decades of research on how behavior changes, they began to change the world. Here you will meet a few of these pioneers: Teodoro Ayllon, Carl Binder, Andy Bondy, Abigail Calkin, Aubrey Daniels, Scott Geller, Robert Holdsambeck, Kent Johnson, Richard Malott, Terry McSween, Francis Mechner, Henry Pennypacker, Karen Pryor, Kurt Salzinger, Murray Sidman, Tristam Smith, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, and Travis Thompson. They will tell you their stories in their own words. They will tell you how and why they abandoned traditional methods and sought new and better solutions to the persistent problems of our society. You will get to know them as passionate people with a deep commitment to science and making the world a better place. CAUTION: Their fervor is contagious!

Behavioral Science: Tales of Inspiration, Discovery, and Service

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

This book follows the fundamental dictate of science: collect the data! We asked each of the contributors to prepare a response to the question: Why and how did you come to this field? We asked them to tell their first person accounts in a way that would give the reader not only a sense of who they are but also how they applied the science to their unique area.

Behavioral Science: Tales of Inspiration, Discovery, and Service Volume II

Dwight Harshbarger

WILLIAM L. HEWARD

Julie M. Smith

T.V.Joe Layng

J.E.R. Staddon

Continuously Programmed Environments and the Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior

Brady, Joseph V

DON'T IGNORE YOUR CHILD!  Catch'em being good-and let'em know. The Home Token Economy is a flexible and adaptive incentive program that works well with the family management style of many parents. A Home Token Economy is a miniature economic system for the family, where family members earn tokens for behaving appropriately and exchange those tokens for desirable things and activities. This system will help you to attend to the critical features of your children's and your own behavior and how each effects the other. You can have your Home Token Economy in place and running within an hour after reading this manual. Furthermore, you can quickly tell if the system is working, and, if it isn't, you can make adjustments to ensure that it does work. The Home Token Economy is different from many "self help" books available, because it provides the means by which you can determine the effectiveness of your program and the steps you can take to ensure that it works for you in your home.

The Home Token Economy

Cheney, Carl D.

Alvord, Jack R.

Americans gather around more than 125 grave sites every day to mourn the losses of loved ones killed in a traffic crash. Each year the disabling injuries from vehicle wrecks number in the millions. Alcohol consumption (a behavioral excess) and inconsistent safety-belt use (a behavioral deficit) contribute substantially to injuries and fatalities from vehicle crashes. Politicians, corporate leaders, employee groups, health and medical professionals, educators, media writers and producers, grass roots agencies, civic and service clubs, and family members urgently need to mount a comprehensive nationwide attack on these behavioral excesses and deficits.  This monograph reviews the role of applied behavior analysis in efforts to reduce alcohol-impaired driving and motivate the use of vehicle safety belts, thus preventing injuries and deaths from vehicle crashes.  Commentary by Donald M. Baer, Michael Cataldo, Edward Christophersen, H. McIlvaine Parsons, Michael C. Roberts, Bruce A. Thyer. Response by: E. Scott Geller. Edited by: Sigrid S. Glenn.

Applications of behavior analysis to prevent injuries from vehicle crashes (Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Monograph Series)

Geller, E. Scott

An operant is a "revealed operant" (rO) if it is specified as a sequence of more than two recorded sub-operants. The first and last sub-operants must be made on different manipulanda. An rO differs from traditional operants (those that are recorded as single instantaneous events) in that more than one of its sub-operants is recorded. This feature makes the rO a practical model for studying the structure of individual occurrences of operants. For each occurrence, several types of behavioral measures, including duration, sub-operant patterns, and the operant's internal structure, can be examined.  This monograph describes a practical method for implementing rOs and discusses how the rO model can be used to address various issues in the field of behavior research. Among these are reinforcement, behavior shaping, variability, acquisition, extinction, automatization, punishment, choice behavior, equivalence, transition behavior, behavioral cyclicity, and drug effects.  Commentary by Donald M. Baer, M. Jackson Marr, John A. Nevin, Thom Verhave. Response by Francis Mechner. Edited by Sigrid S. Glenn.

The Revealed Operant: A Way to Study the Characteristics of Individual Occurrences of Operant Responses

Mechner, Francis

This deluxe version has all charts reproduced in easy to read full color. A comprehensive revision of the 1972 Handbook of the Standard Behavior Chart by Pennypacker, Koenig &amp; Lindsley. This edition contains new material and is written for a somewhat more advanced audience. It has a larger reference section, a more extensive glossary, and a list of web resources. The Deluxe edition features 2-color charts (light blue-green and black) while the Standard edition uses the black and white format of the earlier book.

Handbook of the Standard Celeration Chart, Deluxe Edition

H.S. Pennypacker

O.R. Lindsley

Johnson and Street describe a technology of instruction, based on scientific research, that has improved the academic performance of children, adolescents, and adults at 86 schools and agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction combines well-designed instructional materials, fast-paced classroom presentation, and focused practice to fluency. The result is expert and confident learners who apply skills and strategies to think about the world around them, continue to learn on their own, and solve problems of daily living.

The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What It Means to Leave No Child Behind

Kent Johnson, Ph.D.

Elizabeth M. Street, Ph.D.

It was said by those who took the courses, that Israel Goldiamond's University of Chicago two quarter sequence in Behavior Analysis & Programs was equivalent to a Ph.D. program elsewhere. While perhaps somewhat of an exaggeratoin, the effect of the courses was indeed profound. Those who worked with Dr. Goldiamond knew that much of the course content came from a text developed at the Institute for Behavioral Research under contract with the U.S. Surgeon General. This text is now being made available by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and has been prepared and edited for current use by Dr. Paul Andronis.

The Blue Books: Goldiamond & Thompson's Functional Analysis of Behavior

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