Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis: Integrating Research into Practice (Au...

Description: Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis: Integrating Research into Practice (Autism and Child Psychopathology Series) [Hardcover] Matson, Johnny L. Product Overview This book provides comprehensive coverage of applied behavioral analysis (ABA). It examines the history and training methods of ABA as well as related ethical and legal issues. The book discusses various aspects of reinforcement, including social reinforcers, tangible reinforcers, automatic reinforcement, thinning reinforcers, and behavioral momentum. It addresses basic training strategies, such as prompts and fadings, stimulus fading, and stimulus pairing and provides insights into auditory/visual discrimination, instructional feedback, generalization, error correction procedures, and response interruption. In addition, the book addresses the use of ABA in education and explores compliance training, on-task behavior, teaching play and social skills, listening and academic skills, technology, remembering and cognitions, picture-based instruction, foreign language instruction, teaching verbal behavior, public speaking, and vocational skills. In addition, the book covers treatments for tics, trichotillomania, stereotypies, self-injurious behavior, aggression, and toe walking. It also addresses ABA for special populations, including individuals with autism, ADHD, substance abuse, and intellectual disabilities.Featured areas of coverage include:Basic assessment methods, such as observing behavior, treatment integrity, social validation, evaluating physical activity, measuring sleep disturbances, preference assessment, and establishing criteria for skill mastery.Functional assessment, including how to quantify outcomes and evaluate results, behaviors that precede and are linked to target behaviors, and treatments.Treatment methods, such as token economies, discrete trial instruction, protective equipment, group-based and parent training as well as staff training and self-control procedures.Health issues, including dental and self-care, life skills, mealtime and feeding, telehealth, smoking reduction and cessation, and safety training.Leisure and social skills, such as cellphone use, gambling, teaching music, sports and physical fitness.The Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, behavioral therapy and rehabilitation, special education, developmental psychology, pediatrics, nursing, and all interrelated disciplines. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 2023rd edition (April 30, 2023) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1348 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031199634 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 39 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.44 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.17 x 3.15 x 10.24 inches Best Sellers Rank: #6,921,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,703 in Medical Developmental Psychology #2,959 in Developmental Psychology (Books) #3,123 in Special Education (Books) #2,703 in Medical Developmental Psychology #2,959 in Developmental Psychology (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.

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