Contemporary behavior therapy: conceptual and empirical foundations

Introduction / G. Terence Wilson and Cyril M. Franks

BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY : A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Behavior therapy : on roots, contexts, and growth / Leonard Krasner. Introduction ; Historiographical context ; Societal context ; The context of behaviorism ; Historical perspectives on behavior therapy ; On current terminology ; On problem behaviors, populations, and techniques ; On legal-ethical issues

EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY. Research in infrahuman and human conditioning / Donald J. Levis and Paul F. Malloy. Introduction ; Development of psychopathy ; Maintenance of psychopathy ; Treatment implications of conditioning models of psychopathy

Integrating Psychobiology and behavior therapy : a systems perspective / Gary E. Schwartz. Introduction ; What is systems theory? Behavior as a subset of "behavior" ; What is a system? The breathing example ; Complexity and multiple effects : the meditation example ; Systems theory and differential diagnosis : the facial pain-insomnia-hypertension example ; Emergence reconsidered : the depression example ; Self-regulation and dysregulation : the repression-cerebral disconnection example ; Social dysregulation : a negative side effect of successful symptomatic treatment? ; Summary and conclusions : the shift from behavior to "behavior" therapy

Cognitive and social processes in personality / Nancy Cantor and John F. Kihlstrom. Cognitive and social processes in personality ; The evolution of modern personology ; Interpersonal perception : tasks and principles of naïve psychology ; Self-perception : the nature and function of the self-concept ; The links between social cognition and social behavior ; Some unresolved issues ; Clinical implications.

MAJOR CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES. Neobehavioristic (S-R) Theory / Hans J. Eysenck. Definition of terms ; Watson's original theory ; Theoretical advances ; A unified theory of treatment ; Personality and the diathesis-stress model ; Desynchrony, imagery, and conditioning ; Limitations of a theory

Applied behavior analysis / Donald M. Baer. Forms of verbal behavior controlling applied behavior analysis ; Turning problems into behaviors ; The theoretical significance of identifying target behaviors ; A possible tactic for future analysis

Cognitive-behavior therapy / Donald Meichenbaum and Roy Cameron. The nature and origins of cognitive-behavior modification ; Cognitive-behavior modification with children ; Cognitive-behavior modification with adults

Social learning theory / Ted L. Rosenthal. What is social learning theory? ; Victories various via vistas vicarious ; Component processes in cognition ; Who got there first? ; "A" or "The" : instance versus prototype

ASSESSMENT AND METHODOLOGY. Behavioral assessment / Frederick H. Kanfer and W. Robert Nay. Introduction ; Selection of information ; Verifying the formulation ; Defining the assessment task ; Segmenting the stream of behavior ; Select of method ; Is the assessment doing more than assessing? ; The utility of the assessment : issues in clinical decision making

Methodological strategies in behavior-therapy research / Alan E. Kazdin. Single-case experimental design ; Treatment-evaluation strategies ; Analogue research ; Social validation of treatment effects

CONCLUSION AND EVALUATION. Childhood disorders / K. Daniel O'Leary and Edward G. Carr. Introduction ; Developmental disabilities ; Fears ; Conduction disorders : aggression and hyperactivity ; Delinquency ; Enuresis ; Behavioral pediatrics ; Future directions

Adult disorders / G. Terence Wilson. Introduction ; Anxiety disorders ; Psychosexual dysfunctions.