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This volume, which developed out of the Third European Meeting for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior held in Dublin, Ireland, in July of 1997, presents sixteen essays from leading behavioral scholars. Topics include selectionism, reinforcement, stimulus equivalence, relational frame theory, bridging the gap between experimental and applied behavior analysis and more.

Anyone interested in the theory or practice of the education and treatment of children with autism will find something of interest in this book. It gathers together leaders in the fields of behavior analysis and autism research, who discourse on a range of topics, including: The science and ethics of early autism interventions Stimulus control and the treatment of early autism Establishing communication repertories with disables persons Teachi...

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of substances that are used to modify behavior. While different classes of substances have known effects, one has only to see a group of people drinking to excess to recognize that not everyone responds in the same way to a given substance. Why do substances have the behavioral effects they do, and why do individuals vary in their responses to them? This book provides a conceptual framework for answering s...

The American government makes a great case for being interested in education and claims to take great pains to "leave no child behind." Current education-system enhancement strategies emphasize testing and accountability and focus on rewarding or penalizing teachers whose students make statistical headway at exam time. But little is offered to teacher in the way of new, better skills to make their teaching more effective. In this book, four le...

The result of the Nevada Conference on Acceptance and Change, held at the University of Nevada in January of 1993, this book explores the results of clinical empirical investigations into acceptance-base psychotherapeutic treatment methods. Until the last few decades, nearly all empirical psychological investigations focused only on direct, change-oriented techniques. Now more current research has applied the same research methods to acceptanc...