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ABCs of Human Behavior Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician

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ISBN-10: 1608824349

ISBN-13: 9781608824342

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jonas Ramnero, Niklas Torneke

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When cognitive behavior therapy emerged in 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behavior principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists. But as the new third-wave behavior therapies begin to address weaknesses in the traditional cognitive behavioral models-principally the modest effectiveness of thought stopping and cognitive restructuring techniques-basic behavior principles are once again attracting the interest of front-line clinicians. Many of today's clinicians, though, received their training during the years in which classical…    
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Context Press
Publication date: 7/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Jonas Ramner, PhD, has worked as a licensed psychologist for 18 years. He earned license as a psychotherapist in 1995. He is currently assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University, where he is responsible for the clinical training in cognitive-behavioral therapies for the students studying to become psychologists or psychotherapists. He earned his Ph.D in 2005 with the thesis Behavioral Treatments of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia: Treatment Process and Determinants of Change and is author of articles published in international scientific journals. Ramner has an extensive clinical experience, mainly of treating people with anxiety and mood disorders, an…    

Niklas Trneke, MD, is a psychiatrist and has worked as a senior psychiatrist in the department of general psychiatry in his hometown Kalmar (in the southeast of Sweden) from 1991 until he started private practice 1998. He earned license as a psychotherapist in 1996 and was originally trained as a cognitive therapist. Since 1998 he has worked mainly with acceptance and commitment therapy, both in his own practice and as a teacher and clinical supervisor. His clinical experience ranges from psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia to common anxiety and mood disorders with high prevalence in the general population.

Foreword
Our Thanks
Introduction Building on Behaviorism: Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies, Behavioral Psychotherapy, and Functional Contextualism
Describing Behavior
Topographical Aspects of Behavior
Observing Behavior: When, Where, and How Much?
Knowing Your ABCs
Explaining Behavior
Learning by Association: Respondent Conditioning
Learning by Consequences: Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning: Stimulus Control
Learning by Relational Framing: Language and Cognition
Applying Your ABCs
Changing Behavior
Functional Knowledge
Dialogue Toward Change
Principles and Practices
Principles of Treatment: One
Principles of Treatment: Two
Afterword
Suggested Reading
References
Index