ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician

by Ramnero, Jonas

• ISBN13: 9781572245389
• ISBN10: 1572245387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc

Summary

When cognitive behaviour therapy emerged in 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behaviour principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists. But as the new "third-wave" behaviour therapies begin to address weaknesses in the traditional cognitive behavioural models-principally the modest effectiveness of thought stopping and cognitive restructuring techniques-basic behaviour principles are once again attracting the interest of front-line clinicians. Many of today's clinicians, though, received their training during the years in which classical behaviourism was not a major part of clinical education. In order to make the best use of the new contextual behaviourism, they need to revisit basic behavioural principles from a practical angle. This book addresses this need. The ABCs of Human Behavior offers practicing clinicians a practical introduction to the basics of modern behavioural psychology. The book focuses both on the classical principles of learning as well as more recent developments that explain language and cognition in behavioural and contextual terms. Practical and easy to read, the book walks clinicians through both common sense and clinical examples that help them learn to use behavioural principles to observe, explain, and influence behaviour in a therapeutic setting.

Author Biography

Jonas Ramnero is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Our Thanks	p. vii
Introduction
Building on Behaviorism: Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies, Behavioral Psychotherapy, and Functional Contextualism	p. 1
Describing Behavior
Topographical Aspects of Behavior	p. 15
Observing Behavior: When, Where, and How Much?	p. 31
Knowing Your ABCs	p. 47
Explaining Behavior
Learning by Association: Respondent Conditioning	p. 63
Learning by Consequences: Operant Conditioning	p. 79
Operant Conditioning: Stimulus Control	p. 99
Learning by Relational Framing: Language and Cognition	p. 109
Applying Your ABCs	p. 127
Changing Behavior
Functional Knowledge	p. 145
Dialogue Toward Change	p. 151
Principles and Practices	p. 167
Principles of Treatment: One	p. 171
Principles of Treatment: Two	p. 185
Afterword	p. 199
Suggested Reading	p. 201
References	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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