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Author LEVIS, DONALD

Title FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Published [Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2017

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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1 Behavioral Therapy: The Fourth Therapeutic Revolution?; Chapter 2 Operant Procedures in Behavior Modification with Children; Comment; Chapter 3 Token Economy as an Illustration of Operant Conditioning Procedures with the Aged, with Youth, and with Society; Comment; Chapter 4 Pavlovian Conditioning Approaches; Comment; Chapter 5 Stimulus Control, Response Control, and the Desensitization of Fear; Comment; Chapter 6 Implosive Therapy: An Emphasis on Covert Stimulation; Comment
Chapter 7 Some Implications of a Social Learning Theory for the Practice of PsychotherapyComment; Chapter 8 Responses of a Nonclinician to Stimuli Provided by Behavioral Therapists; Name index; Subject index
Summary "The term "behavior therapy" is applied to many techniques and strategies, some theoretically based and some not, unified by a common goal: the application of learning principles to the treatment of psychopathology. Although treatment paradigms have changed, with the increased use of drug therapy, this classic volume provides important information about traditional treatments involving therapist and patient. In this volume, comprehensive reviews of the main positions in behavior therapy show how orientations differ from each other and provide a forum for the critical evaluation of each. The editor has assigned to each contributor a review of the behavioral therapy position in which he is distinguished and a commentary on one of the other positions. Levis provides an introduction to the history, principles, and theory underlying the field, asking if behavior therapy is the "fourth therapeutic revolution" (after Pinel, Freud, and Community Mental Health). Bradley Bucher and O. Ivar Lovaas are concerned with the application of operant conditioning techniques to child populations. Leonard Krasner reviews the token economy approaches, illustrating how these techniques apply to the adult hospitalized population and to society. Followed by this, Cyril Franks reviews the Pavlovian conditioning approach, while Peter Lang surveys Wolpei?1/2s systematic desensitization. Implosive therapy is viewed by Thomas Stampfl as an attempt to bridge the conditioning and psychoanalytic models; and Julian Rotter, a pioneer in the field, reviews his social learning theory approach. Judson Brown provides an analytic overview to the collection. A comprehensive look at the orientations and treatment techniques that comprise the field of behavior therapy, this book is important reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and related mental health specialists."--Provided by publisher
Subject Behavior therapy -- Congresses
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Behavior therapy
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ISBN 9780203791691
020379169X
9781351519465
1351519468
9781351519458
135151945X