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Applied Behavior Analysis for Clinical, Educational, and Training Applications.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vladescu, Jason C.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (467 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2025.
- Summary:
- The rapid advancement in the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) over the last several decades, is likely attributable to the success in application to supporting the needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder/autistic individuals.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Applied Behavior Analysis for Clinical, Educational, and Training Applications
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword: more ABA is better
- References
- Preface
- Expanding the reach of applied behavior analysis
- Overview of the two volumes
- A vision forward
- Reference
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Scope of competence to assess and treat feeding problems in childhood
- Introduction
- Prevalence of feeding problems
- Diagnosis
- Complex etiology and health concerns
- Empirically supported assessment and treatment
- Commonly targeted behaviors and goals
- Empirically supported assessment
- Empirically supported treatments
- When is it appropriate to intervene?
- The ethics code for behavior analysts
- Consideration of a client's medical needs (Code 2.12 and 2.10)
- Right to effective treatment (2.01, 2.13, 2.09)
- Establishing scope of competence
- Developing foundational knowledge
- Credentials and certification
- Developing applied skills
- Collaboration with interdisciplinary team
- Maintaining competency
- Establishing a route for ethical billing and service delivery
- Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- 2 Severe problem behavior
- Severe problem behavior
- Formal properties of severe problem behavior
- Basic principles related to the functional properties of problem behavior
- Schedules of reinforcement for problem and appropriate behavior
- Differential reinforcement
- Concurrent reinforcement
- Stimulus control of the problem and appropriate behavior
- Discriminative control
- Motivating operations
- Functional analysis of severe problem behavior
- Basic principles related to the functional analysis of problem behavior
- Differential and concurrent reinforcement
- Discriminative stimuli and motivating operations.
- Common test and control conditions
- A note on functional analysis modifications
- Treatment of severe problem behavior
- Functional communication training
- Mechanisms of behavior change
- Applications of functional communication training
- Populations
- Implementers and settings
- Topographies of problem behavior
- Functions of problem behavior
- Implementing functional communication training
- Selecting the functional communication response
- Pretraining the functional communication response
- Treatment evaluation
- Schedule thinning
- Maintenance and generalization
- Treatment of automatically reinforced problem behavior
- Noncontingent reinforcement and competing-stimulus assessments
- Treatment-resistant, automatically reinforced problem behavior
- Toward professional competency in assessing and treating severe problem behavior
- Education and credentials
- Working as a behavior therapist or registered behavior technician
- Serving as a clinical supervisor
- Directing a clinical program
- Competencies and considerations
- Physical and emotional considerations
- Crisis management
- Medical competencies
- Clinical competencies
- Research competencies
- Interpersonal skills
- Further reading
- 3 Behavioral pediatrics/pediatric psychology
- Introduction: overview of profession
- Review of applied research
- Routine behavioral concerns
- Complex medical concerns with behavioral correlates
- Preparation for medical procedures
- Skills and knowledge necessary for the profession
- Career pathways
- Licensure considerations
- Scope of competence considerations
- Summary
- 4 Clinical behavior analysis and psychological problems from a functional-contextual perspective
- The background of clinical behavior analysis.
- The philosophy behind clinical behavior analysis
- The theory behind clinical behavior analysis: learning principles, verbal behavior, and derived relational responding
- Verbal behavior
- Derived relational responding
- Understanding psychological problems from the functional-contextual perspective
- The main therapeutic models within clinical behavior analysis
- Functional analytic psychotherapy
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Additional context about the education, training, and prior experience needed to work in this field
- AI disclosure
- 5 Education
- Overview of profession
- Conceptual foundations: laboratory to classroom
- Behavioral interventions in education
- Direct instruction
- Recommendations for practitioners
- Precision teaching
- Generative instruction
- Personalized systems of instruction
- Leveraging technology
- Careers for behavior analysts in education
- Summary and conclusions
- 6 Child maltreatment
- The roots of applied behavior analysis in child maltreatment
- Behavioral parent training to prevent child maltreatment
- Project 12-Ways
- SafeCare
- Parent training
- Provider training
- Reach of the model
- Future directions for applied behavior analysis in the prevention of child maltreatment
- Workforce
- Who comprises the workforce for behavioral parenting programs in child welfare?
- Model developers and researchers
- 7 Juvenile correctional services: a model for application extensions in applied settings
- What is an empirically supported procedure in applied behavior analysis?
- What is an application extension?.
- Utility of application extensions in juvenile corrections
- Application extensions to build empirical support in juvenile corrections
- Application extensions in juvenile justice intervention
- Group interventions
- Individual interventions
- Tolerance training
- Stimulus control procedures
- Interview skills
- Behavior contracts
- Other research developments
- 8 Brain injury and behavior analysis: from model to treatment
- Prologue
- Brief background
- Brain injury and behavior analysis: from model to treatment
- Physical rehabilitation and contingency rehabilitation
- A model for neurobehavior treatment
- Aristotle's framework for explanations
- Applying Aristotle's framework to neurobehavioral treatment and the role of behavior analysis
- Using applied behavior analysis technology in brain injury treatment
- A brief analysis of stimulus control
- Errorless teaching and brain injury treatment
- Reducing, without eliminating, behavior
- Remembering names
- Improving physical movement and mobility
- Visual analysis of medication effects
- Case studies employing cumulative recording
- Greg
- Sam
- Anna
- Peter
- Reconciling radical behaviorism with the four causes: is it necessary?
- Epilogue
- So it goes
- Recommendations
- Becoming a Certified Brain Injury Specialist
- Expansion of the curricula of behavior analytic training programs
- Special interest groups at the Association for Behavior Analysis International
- Collaboration
- Appendix A Guide to cumulative graphing with Excel
- 9 The professional practice of behavioral gerontology
- The professional practice of behavioral gerontology
- Unique factors impacting aging individuals
- Applicable conceptual and basic research review.
- Research on reinforcement effects in older adults
- Learned dependence
- Age-related changes in stimulus control
- Behavioral activation
- Adapting conceptual and basic work into practical application
- Environmental enrichment
- Contingent reinforcement
- Stimulus control
- Practice in behavioral gerontology
- Ethical considerations
- Toward the design of effective training and mentorship in behavioral gerontology
- 10 Behavior analysis in substance use disorders
- Behavior analysis in substance use disorders
- Substance use disorder: social significance
- A behavior-analytic framework to understand drug use and abuse
- The four-term operant unit
- Consequences
- Discriminative stimuli
- Complementary frameworks to the four-term unit
- Reinforcer pathology account
- Molar and other behavioral economic accounts
- Reinforcement-based interventions for substance use
- Contingency management
- Parameters for best practice
- The emergence of digital contingency management
- Recent widescale applications
- Talk therapies
- Motivational interviewing
- Prevention
- Identifying behavioral risk factors
- Behavior analysts interested in working with substance use disorders
- 11 Applied analysis of animal behavior
- Applied analysis of animal behavior
- Foundational behavior principles in applied analysis of animal behavior
- Choice
- Conditioned reinforcement
- Discrimination
- Errorless learning
- Animal training
- Function-based assessment and treatment of challenging behavior
- Jackpotting
- Working in applied animal behavior
- 12 Autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.
- Autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-443-22360-2
- 0-443-22361-0
- 9780443223600
- OCLC:
- 1547234563
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