Behavior Modification Procedure

Behavior modification has lacked operational procedures to sharpen techniques and equipment. These aspects have lagged behind the development of general principles and specialized modification techniques. This sophisticated sourcebook is devoted exclusively to the technical details of "how-to-do-it" in behavioral assessment and practice--an aspect of behavior modification that is relatively undeveloped despite its significance and that has only recently received the attention it deserves. The selections contained in this volume have been drawn from a variety of technical areas and are organized into six main parts. The first part emphasizes the importance of technology and procedure in the history of the field, and in the second part attention is given to guidelines for practice with individuals and families that may be employed with a wide variety of problems and patrons in many service settings. The next part, on interviewing guidelines and style, includes an interview guide for behavioral counseling and a general discussion of types of bias and therapist influence in behavioral assessment. Part four is concerned with observation, recording, and monitoring; and part five, on schedules and checklists, includes a variety of schedules and rating forms, including a therapist schedule for rating family verbal behavior. The last part, on instrumentation in behavior therapy, contains a chapter that is a major, comprehensive description and review of electromechanical devices applicable to behavior modification. Because the book covers procedural details, it serves not only as a sourcebook but as a volume every practicing behavior modifier, as well as researchers in behavior therapy and modification will find useful. Social workers, teachers, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, pastoral counselors, and their students will appreciate this manual covering technical information required for effective practice.

Schinke, Steven Paul

I. INTRODUCTION 1. The End of Ideology in Behavior Modification II GENERA L PROCEDURAL GUIDELINES 2. Procedure for Socio-behavioral Practice in Open Settings 3. Child Behavior Therapy: A Community Program in Appalachia 4. Precision Social Work: General Model and Illustrative Projects with Clients 5. Methodology for Experimental Studies of Young Children in Natural Settings 6. A Behavioral Approach to the Group Treatment of Parents 7. Behavior Modification in Adult Groups III . INTERVIEWING GUIDELINE S AND STYLE S 8. An Interview Guide for Behavioral Counseling with Parents 9. The Ecological Interview: A First Step in Out-Patient Child Behavior Therapy 10. Transcript of Initial Interview in a Case of Depression 11. Bias and Therapist Influence in Behavioral Assessment IV. OBSERVATION, RECORDING, AND MONITORING 12. Coding Procedure for Teachers 13. A Universal Behavior Graph Paper 14. Rapid Computation of Rates with a Simple Nomogram 15. An Information System for Measuring Patient Behavior and its Use by Staff 16. A Paper Money Token System as a Recording Aid in Institutional Settings 17. The Use of a Credit Card in a Token Economy 18. A Low-Cost, Rapid Delivery Point System with Automatic Recording V. SCHEDULES AND CHECKLISTS 19. A Reinforcement Survey Schedule for Use in Therapy, Training, and Research 20. A Fear Survey Schedule for Use in Behavior Therapy 21. A Factor Analysis of the Fear Survey Schedule-Ill 22. Some Correlates of Self-Reported Fear 23. A Verbal Problem Checklist for Use in Assessing Family Verbal Behavior 24. A Thirty-Item Schedule for Assessing Assertive Behavior VI . ELECTROMECHANICA L DEVICE S 25. Instrumentation in Behavior Therapy