Behavior analysis for lasting change
By: G. Roy Mayer, California State University, Los Angeles, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, University of Massachusetts, Michele Wallace, California State University, Los Angeles
Contributors: Sulzer-Azaroff, Beth; Wallace, Michele, 1968-
Edition: Third Edition.
Series: The Cambridge center-sloan century series
Publisher: Sloan Publishing; Sloan Educational Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9781597380508
Subjects: Behavior modification; Teaching
Table of contents: title: Achieving lasting behavior change through behavior analysis; title: Designing effective strategies of change : essential building blocks; title: Preparing an environment supportive of behavior change; title: Sharpening the focus by refining goals and objectives; title: Fueling behavior change with reinforcement; title: Increasing behavior by developing and selecting powerful reinforcers; title: Organizing for behavior change by collecting useful data; title: Optimizing client progress by monitoring behavior change : recording, graphing, and analyzing patterns of change; title: Optimizing client progress by analyzing the functions of our interventions : basic experimental designs; title: Setting a foundation for positive change : identifying participant's; title: Functional reinforcers; title: Rapidly attaining positive change : implementing reinforcement effectively; title: Promoting and supporting group change : programs and packages; title: Teaching new behavior : shaping; title: Teaching complex behaviors : chaining and task analyses; title: Attaining complex behavior by promoting and supporting antecedent control; title: Selecting and applying methods for promoting stimulus control; title: Achieving stimulus control; title: Achieving fine-tuned performance : specific instructional programs and; title: Behavior management procedures; title: Teaching, expanding and refining verbal behavior; title: Shifting and expanding stimulus control; title: Generalization : expanding stimulus control; title: Maintaining behavior : ratio schedules; title: Maintaining behavior by arranging schedules of reinforcement; title: Supporting and supervising contingency managers; title: Identifying effective interventions with complex research designs; title: Preventing unwanted behavior : antecedent methods; title: Preventing and reducing unwanted behavior : noncontingent reinforcement and extinction; title: Constructively preventing and reducing behavior : differential reinforcement procedures; title: Reducing behavior with negative punishment : response cost and timeout; title: Reducing behavior with positive punishment while minimizing coercion; title: Achieving lasting change responsibly; title: Appendix i: the bacb task list; title: Appendix ii: index for bacb task list coverage; title: Glossary; title: References; title: Name index; title: Subject index.