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Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change 4th Edition by G. Roy Mayer, ISBN-13: 978-1597380850
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- Publisher: Sloan Publishing (January 1, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1597380857
- ISBN-13: 978-1597380850
An introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis appropriate for the four-course VCS (verified course sequence) required for certification by the BACB.
Sloan Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change, 4th Edition by G. Roy Mayer, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, and Michele Wallace. This comprehensive introduction to the field of behavior analysis has been completely updated and references thousands of scientifically-supported constructive solutions within hundreds of areas of human performance. Features of b>Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change · Written by a team of authors who are experienced, accomplished, and well-respected as scientists, scholars, consultants and teachers in the ABA field. · Includes the BACB Task List and prepares the reader for the BCBA exam. The text covers essentially all current concepts and readies the reader for supervised field application · Provides adjuncts to accompany and support readers’ mastery of the material in the text, including: o An instructor’s guide with numerous multiple choice and essay exam
Table of Contents:
About the Authors v
Preface xxv
1. Achieving Lasting Behavior Change by Applying Behavior Analysis: What Is It and How
Does It Work? 1
2. Designing Effective Strategies of Change: Essential Building Blocks 21
3. Preparing an Environment Supportive of Behavior Change 34
4. Sharpening the Focus by Refining Goals and Objectives 54
5. Reinforcement: Fueling Behavior Change 80
6. Increasing Behavior by Developing and Selecting Powerful Reinforcers 98
7. Organizing for Behavior Change by Collecting Useful Data 119
8. Optimizing Client Progress by Monitoring Behavior Change: Recording, Graphing,
and Analyzing Patterns of Change 146
9. Optimizing Client Progress by Analyzing the Functions of Our Interventions:
Basic Experimental Designs 170
10. Setting a Foundation for Positive Change: Identifying Participant’s Functional
Reinforcers 196
11. Rapidly Attaining Positive Change: Implementing Reinforcement Effectively 222
12. Promoting and Supporting Group Change: Programs and Packages 247
13. Teaching New Behavior: Shaping 271
14. Teaching Complex Behaviors: Chaining, Task Analyses, and Social Skills Training 293
15. Attaining Complex Behavior by Promoting and Supporting Antecedent Control 325
16. Selecting and Applying Methods for Promoting Stimulus Control 343
17. Achieving Stimulus Control 360
18. Prompting Procedures and Instructional Programs 383
19. Teaching, Expanding and Refining Verbal Behavior 409
20. Promoting Independence: Shifting and Expanding Stimulus Control 437
21. Generalization: Expanding Stimulus Control 457
22. Maintaining Behavior: Ratio and Related Schedules of Reinforcement 484
23. Maintaining Behavior by Arranging Time Based Schedules of Reinforcement 502
24. Organizational Performance Management Systems: Supervising and Supporting
Contingency Managers 527
25. Identifying Effective Interventions with Complex Research Designs 556
26. An Introduction to Preventing and/or Reducing Contextually Inappropriate Behavior 585
27. Preventing Unwanted Behavior: Antecedent Methods 591
28. Reducing Unwanted Behavior: Extinction 617
29. Constructively Preventing and Reducing Behavior: Differential Reinforcement
Procedures 631
30. Reducing Behavior with Negative Punishment: Response Cost and Timeout 657
31. Reducing Behavior with Positive Punishment while Minimizing Coercion 683
32. Achieving Lasting Change Responsibly 723
Appendix 1: BACB 5th Edition Task List with References to Text Pages 743
Appendix 2: BACB 4th Edition Task List with References to Text Pages 751
Glossary 761
References 789
Name Index 865
Subject Index 885
G. Roy Mayer, BCBA-D, is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. He also has taught at Indiana University, Southern Illinois University and Namseoul University in South Korea. He is one of the founders of the California Association for Behavior Analysis, and assisted in bringing Certification in Behavior Analysis to California.
Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, Ph.D. has been active in the field of applied behavior analysis from its earliest beginning. She has taught the subject at several major universities and conducted extensive behavior analytic research. The results of over a hundred studies have been published by her and her collaborators. She has authored over a dozen books, several in collaboration with G. Roy Mayer, on behavior analysis in education and in general applications.
Michele D. Wallace, BCBA-D graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with her doctorate in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. She is currently an Associate Professor at California State University, Los Angeles and Program Coordinator.
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