Main description:

This book provides comprehensive coverage of applied behavioral analysis (ABA). It examines the history and training methods of ABA as well as related ethical and legal issues. The book discusses various aspects of reinforcement, including social reinforcers, tangible reinforcers, automatic reinforcement, thinning reinforcers, and behavioral momentum. It addresses basic training strategies, such as prompts and fadings, stimulus fading, and stimulus pairing and provides insights into auditory/visual discrimination, instructional feedback, generalization, error correction procedures, and response interruption. In addition, the book addresses the use of ABA in education and explores compliance training, on-task behavior, teaching play and social skills, listening and academic skills, technology, remembering and cognitions, picture-based instruction, foreign language instruction, teaching verbal behavior, public speaking, and vocational skills. In addition, the book covers treatments for tics, trichotillomania, stereotypies, self-injurious behavior, aggression, and toe walking. It also addresses ABA for special populations, including individuals with autism, ADHD, substance abuse, and intellectual disabilities.

Featured areas of coverage include:

Basic assessment methods, such as observing behavior, treatment integrity, social validation, evaluating physical activity, measuring sleep disturbances, preference assessment, and establishing criteria for skill mastery.
Functional assessment, including how to quantify outcomes and evaluate results, behaviors that precede and are linked to target behaviors, and treatments.
Treatment methods, such as token economies, discrete trial instruction, protective equipment, group-based and parent training as well as staff training and self-control procedures.
Health issues, including dental and self-care, life skills, mealtime and feeding, telehealth, smoking reduction and cessation, and safety training.
Leisure and social skills, such as cellphone use, gambling, teaching music, sports and physical fitness.

The Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, behavioral therapy and rehabilitation, special education, developmental psychology, pediatrics, nursing, and all interrelated disciplines.

Contents:

1) History of Applied Behavior Analysis2) Ethics and Legal Issues3) Social Reinforcers4) Tangible Reinforcers: Conceptual Overview and Considerations for Practice5) Automatic Reinforcement6) Reinforcer Thinning: General Approaches and Considerations for Maintaining Skills and Mtigating Relapse7) Behavioral Momentum Theory8) Differential Reifnorcement Procedures9) Prompts and Prompt-Fading Procedures10) Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing11) Psychological Modeling and the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders12) Conditional Discrimination: What's in a Name?13) Auditory-Visual Discriminations: Stimulus Control, Teaching Procedures, and Considerations14) Instructive Feedback: Applications in Applied Behavior Analysis 15) Generalization16) Response Interruption and Redirection17) Error Correction Procedures18) Tact and Mand Training for Children with Language Impairment19) Essentials of Observing Behavior20) Single Case Designs21) Stimulus Preference Assessments22) Establishing Performance Criteria for Skill Mastery23) Evaluating Physical Activity Levels24) Treatment Integrity25) Social Validation 26) Experimental Functional Analysis27) Standard Tests and Interviews for Functional Assessment28) Quantifying Outcomes in Applied Behavior Analysis through Visual and Statistical Analysis: A Synthesis29) Precursor Behaviors to Severe Challenging Behaviors30) Function-Based Treatment31) Token Economies32) Discrete Trial Instruction 33) Group-Based Instruction34) Caregiver Training35) Staff Training36) Enhanced Dental Care37) Self-Care Skills38) Preschool Life Skills and the Prevention of Problem Behavior 39) Treating Mealtime Difficulties in Children40) Telehealth and Applied Behavior Analysis: An Overview and Examples of Application41) Smoking Cessation 42) Safety Training43) Mobile Devices in the Context of Applied Behavior Analysis: A Multipurpose Tool 44) Teaching Musical Skills and Developing Music Therapy Interventions45) Behavior Analysis and Sports Performance46) Fitness47) The Good Behavior Game48) Compliance Training 49) On-Task Behavior50) Teaching Play Skills51) Teaching Social Skills52) Applied Behavior Analysis to Teach Academic Skills 53) Technology to Increase Vocalizations and Speech54) Remembering and Cognition55) Picture Based Communication56) Teaching Foreign Language57) Teaching Verbal Behavior58) Vocational Skills for Individuals with Autism and/or Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Implications for Behavior Analysts59) A Review of Behavioral Intervention for Treating Tics 60) Stereotypy61) Self-Injurious Behavior62) Assessment and Treatment of Toe Walking63) Using Reinforcement to Prevent Challenging Behaviors64) Autism65) Substance Abuse66) People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities67) Behavioral Gerontology