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In this groundbreaking guide for clinicians, psychologist and author Matthew McKay presents emotional efficacy therapy (EET)-a powerful and proven-effective model for treating clients with emotion regulation disorders.

Research suggests that meeting behavior therapy needs along with medical care needs may result in an overall reduction in costs. This collection of essays explores the uses of behavioral therapy in the treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, heart disease, and more.

This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC clients with competent and affirming care.As you know, TNGC clients have different needs based on who they are in relation to the world. Written by three psychologists who specialize in working with the TGNC population, this important book draws on the perspective that there is no one-siz...

Trade paperback. Provides theory and practical applications for intervention, prevention and outreach.

Behavior analytic research on rule-governed behavior was first gathered in this book in 1989. Shortly after that time, the area slowed, perhaps in part due to the difficulties in distinguishing verbal from non-verbal processes within behavior analysis. Recently, however, there has been a notable pick up in interest in the topic. This previously out-of-print volume has been reprinted by Context Press in order to provide a readily accessible res...

Because traditional behaviorism overlooked function-altering behavior processes that are critical to understanding many behavior disorders, other theoretical models took the lead in the explanation of pathological human behavior. Current trends in behavior analysis, however, account for these processes, retuning behavior analysis to a strong position in this area of research. This book presents a cogent and comprehensive theory of behavior dis...

Visual Basic for Psychologists is designed to provide the behavioral psychologist with the necessary skills to adapt their human operant research agenda to the changing face of science in the 21st century. Filled with illustrative "screen shots, " this book will show you how to computerize your experimental apparatus, stimulus presentations, and data collection procedures. It will also provide you with specific programming routines (code) that...

For more than three years, British psychologist David Chantry followed the daily activity on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Listserve, recognizing that he was witnessing one of the most innovative and excitiing discussions in the field of contemporary psychotherapy. In this book, he has collected many of his observation of this nascent period, a selection of proposals, arguments, and elucidations from many of leaders in this area,...

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The United States is currently facing a healthcare crisis. Fourteen percent of its total gross domestic product is spent on healthcare, and, alarmingly, costs continue to grow rates far outpacing inflation. Yet millions of American's face financial devastation because they lack basic healthcare coverage. President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has identified several inadequacies in the current system of behavioral health servi...

Contextualism as a philosophy of science has been receiving increased attention from psychologists and other social scientists frustrated with the dominant mechanistic view within psychology. This volume explores a wide range of contextualistic views within psychology and the social sciences. These are fresh approaches that cut across old quarrels and polarities. This volume is composed of thirteen chapters, each followed by brief discussions ...

Contextualism as a philosophy of science has been receiving increased attention from psychologists and other social scientists frustrated with the dominant mechanistic view within psychology. This volume explores a wide range of contextualistic views within psychology and the social sciences. These are fresh approaches that cut across old quarrels and polarities. This volume is composed of thirteen chapters, each followed by brief discussions ...

From the mid-1960s until his death in 1989, Willard Day wrote and spoke on two central themes: the distinctive characteristics of Skinner's scientific philosophy, and the implications of Skinner's work for the development of scientific methods relevant to verbal behavior. Only some of this work made its way to publication. Edited by Sam Leigland, this book brings together in one place the most important papers, published and unpublished, of th...

This brief practitioner's guide describes simple and practical strategies for assessing and treating depression using techniques adapted to the fast pace of primary care. The book shows how these strategies may be implemented by physicians alone or in coordination with an on-site mental health provider. The integrated-care program focuses on selecting appropriate medication and behavioral interventions for patients, involving him or her as a p...

This book breaks new ground by integrating dynamic systems concepts with a contextual behavioral view of development. The two make a dramatically good fit and something new emerges from the combination: a behavioral systems approach to development. With its consistent, natural science, non-linear, contextual orientation, Novak has fashioned an undergraduate text that will have broad appeal for courses in developmental psychology.

The social sciences are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. Knowing only one perspective isn't enough. Researchers need to be able to interact with social scientists of different backgrounds everyday, and they all need to be able to understand what each other is saying. This book brings together, for the first time, social science research from all major fields to analyze the social behaviors of everyday life. This volume is invaluable fo...

Substance abuse is a major public health concern, affecting millions of people in the United States. Alcoholism and drug addiction often result in severe health problems for substance abusers. Families suffer, substance-related crime claims victims, and, most tragically, impaired driving accidents result in the deaths of thousands of innocent individuals each year. Clearly, the treatment of these problems is a major concern for our society. Mo...

Professionals who work with patients and clients struggling with chronic pain will benefit from this values-based behavior change program for managing the effects of pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain addresses case formulation and clinical techniques for working with pain patients through a combination of practical instruction and a treatment scenario narrative that follows a patient through an ACT-based intervention. An...

In these days of positive reinforcement and the ubiquitous 'time out, ' is punishment still a valuable tool for disciplining children? And what forms of punishment are effective-or even permissible? This must-have book for professionals, parents, and teachers demystifies the issue of punishment. It offers reliable techniques for altering undesirable behaviors, including a model for the responsible use of punishment. An engaging blend of sound ...

This volume, the result of a national conference sponsored by The Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno, examines the phenomenon called medical cost offset. The specific question that interests us in this book is: Can the cost of detecting and treating patients' psychosocial problems (from subclinical problems such as stress, to mental disorders such as depression, to adjunctive problems such as treatment ...