Handbook of Child Behavior Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Foundations of Child Behavior Therapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Behavioral and Functional Assessment

      • Frank M. Gresham, Katina M. Lambros

      Pages 3-22

   3. Designs for Evaluating Behavior Change

      • Frank M. Gresham

      Pages 23-40

   4. Toward a Behavior Analytic Approach to Consultation

      • George H. Noell, Joseph C. Witt

      Pages 41-57

3. School-Based Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Preventing Academic Skills Deficits

      • Christopher H. Skinner

      Pages 61-82

   3. Enhancing Academic Achievement through Related Routines

      • Phillip J. Belfiore, Jeffrey M. Hutchinson

      Pages 83-97

   4. Attention/Concentration Problems

      • George J. DuPaul, Kathryn E. Hoff

      Pages 99-126

   5. Speech Disfluencies

      • Raymond G. Miltenberger, Douglas W. Woods

      Pages 127-142

   6. School Attendance

      • Christopher A. Kearney, Cheryl A. Tillotson

      Pages 143-161

4. Home-Based Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Teaching Parenting Skills

      • Mark D. Shriver

      Pages 165-182

   3. Child Physical Abuse and Neglect

      • Brad Donohue, Robert T. Ammerman, Kathleen Zelis

      Pages 183-202

   4. Sleep Problems

      • V. Mark Durand, Jodi Mindell, Eileen Mapstone, Peter Gernert-Dott

      Pages 203-219

   5. Preventing Injury in Children

      • Lisa Saldana, Lizette Peterson

      Pages 221-238

   6. Elimination Disorders in Children

      • Patrick C. Friman, Kevin M. Jones

      Pages 239-260

5. Medical/Pediatric Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Behavior Management of Recurrent Pain in Children

      • Keith D. Allen, Judith R. Matthews

      Pages 263-285

   3. Central Nervous System Dysfunction

      • William J. Warzak, Joan Mayfield, Janice McAllister

      Pages 287-309

The genesis of this book occurred several years ago provide readers with not only the "what to do" of child behavior therapy, but the "how to do it" as in Seattle on the veranda of a Chilean cafe overlook­ well. Each of the chapters guides the reader through ing Pikes Place Market during a National Associa­ tion of School Psychologists conference. We were the clinical decision-making process, from identify­ ing a problem to evaluating the effectiveness of a discussing, along with several other behavioral school psychologists, how the field of child behavior chosen intervention. One of the difficulties in assembling an edited analysis and therapy has experienced rapid growth over the past forty years, but lamenting that books in book is ensuring a high degree of continuity and the area did not reflect the advancements made in the similarity between chapters, without infringing on assessment and treatment of a wide variety of prob­ the individual writing style of the authors. This lem behaviors evidenced by children. That is not to book is certainly no exception. To help with conti­ say that there are no good books available to the child nuity, we provided the authors with an outline to use behavior therapist. In fact, most readers of this book as a guide as they prepared their manuscripts. The undoubtedly have bookshelves lined with noteworthy operative word here is "guide.

• Management
• Skinner
• Syndrom
• Watson
• assessment
• attention
• behavior
• intervention

• Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA

  T. Steuart Watson

• University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

  Frank M. Gresham

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