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International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy

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  • © 1982

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Foundations of Behavior Modification and Therapy

  2. Assessment and Methodology

  3. General Issues and Extensions

  4. Intervention and Behavior Change

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About this book

The rapid growth of behavior therapy over the past 20 years has been well doc­ umented. Yet the geometric expansion of the field has been so great that it deserves to be recounted. We all received our graduate training in the mid to late 1960s. Courses in behavior therapy were then a rarity. Behavioral training was based more on informal tutorials than on systematic programs of study. The behavioral literature was so circumscribed that it could be easily mastered in a few months of study. A mere half-dozen books (by Wolpe, Lazarus, Eysenck, Ullmann, and Krasner) more-or-Iess comprised the behavioral library in the mid- 1960s. Semirial works by Ayllon and Azrin, Bandura, Franks, and Kanfer in 1968 and 1969 made it only slightly more difficult to survey the field. Keeping abreast of new developments was not very difficult, as Behaviour Research and Therapy and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis were the only regular outlets for behavioral articles until the end of the decade, when Behavior Therapy and Be­ havior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry first appeared. We are too young to be maudlin, but "Oh for the good old days!" One of us did a quick survey of his bookshelves and stopped counting books with behavior or behavioral in the titles when he reached 100. There were at least half again as many behavioral books without those words in the title.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical College of Pennsylvania at EPPI, Philadelphia, USA

    Alan S. Bellack

  • Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA

    Michel Hersen, Alan E. Kazdin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy

  • Editors: Alan S. Bellack, Michel Hersen, Alan E. Kazdin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7275-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-7275-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 1052

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology

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