Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy: Improving the Human Condition
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Overview
Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy presents innovative approaches to various societal problems worldwide. Contributors explore issues from diverse areas such as behavioral medicine, education, developmental disability, poverty, problematic behavior, and developmental considerations (ie., early family experiences and aging process). The volume stimulates ideas for research, prevention, and treatment, as well as for managing other modern ills including homelessness, crime, and aggression.
Behavior analysis & HIV prevention/improving eating habits/ memory rehabilitation techniques w/brain-injured persons/etc
Synopsis
Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy presents innovative approaches to various societal problems worldwide. Contributors explore issues from diverse areas such as behavioral medicine, education, developmental disability, poverty, problematic behavior, and developmental considerations (ie., early family experiences and aging process). The volume stimulates ideas for research, prevention, and treatment, as well as for managing other modern ills including homelessness, crime, and aggression.
Booknews
An eclectic collection of contributions that serve to demonstrate that social science is working to alleviate human suffering on both the micro- and macrolevels; at the same time, the contributions present a set of behavioral principles and strategies that are effective in modifying undesirable behavior. Among the topics addressed: medical nonadherence, treatment of substance abuse, improving eating habits, acting to save our schools, communication training in autism, perspectives on the problem of poverty, applying behavioral principles to sport and exercise, and the making of a stable family. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)