Understanding Behavior Disorders
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Behavior analysis today has moved far beyond the simple response-reward conditioning of the past. While still embracing these concepts, modern behavior analysis recognizes that traditional behavioral processes can give rise to other behaviors (e.g., rule governance, relational framing) that can actually alter the way these processes function¿a sort of recursive, behavior-modifying-behavior. Traditional behavioral conceptualizations of various behavioral disorders failed to incorporate these function-altering behavioral processes, and as a result, non-behavior analytic models of these disorders were developed to account for the oversights. Behavior analytic theory came to be regarded as too narrow to account for the complexities involved in human pathology. But recent research on the behavior analysis of human language and cognition (e.g., Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001) have enabled behavior analysis to regain its theoretical foothold in the description of behavior...
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Understanding Behavior Disorders: A Contemporary Behavioral Perspective
- 2. An Introduction to Principles of Behavior
- 3. Applied Extensions of Behavior Principles: Applied Behavioral Concepts and Behavioral Theories
- 4. From Normal Anxiety to Anxiety Disorders: An Experiential Avoidance Perspective
- 5. A Functional Contextual Account of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- 6. A Contemporary Behavior Analytic Model of Trichotillomania
- 7. An Integrative Model of Depression Using Modern Behavioral Principles
- 8. Psychotic Disorders
- 9. Addictive Behavior: An RFT-Enhanced Theory of Addiction
- 10. Eating Disorders: A New Behavioral Perspective and Acceptance-Based Treatment Approach
- 11. Personality Disorders
- 12. Sexual Disorders
- 13. Clinical Behavior Analysis and Health Psychology Applications
- 14. A Behavioral Perspective on Adult Attachment Style, Intimacy, and Relationship Health
- 15. Implications of Verbal Processes for Childhood Disorders: Tourette's Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism
- Index
