Behavior modification : what it is and how to do it / Garry Martin, Joseph Pear.

Contents
PART I THE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION APPROACH


1. Introduction
2. Areas of Application: An Overview

PART II BASIC BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES
3. Getting a Behavior to Occur More Often With Positive Reinforcement
4. Decreasing a Behavior With Extinction
5. Getting a New Behavior to Occur: An Application of Shaping
6. Developing Behavioral Persistence Through the Use of Intermittent Reinforcement
7. Types of Intermittent Reinforcement to Decrease Behavior
8. Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time and Place is a Matter for Stimulus Discrimination Training
9. Developing Appropriate Behavior With Fading
10. Developing and Maintaining Behavior With Conditioned Reinforcement
11. Getting a New Behavior to Occur With Behavioral Chaining
12. Transferring Behavior to New Settings and Making it Last: Generality of Behavioral Change
13. Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior Through Punishment
14. Establishing a Desirable Behavior by Using Escape and Avoidance Conditioning
15. Procedures Based on Principles of Respondent Conditioning


PART III SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
16. Short-cut Tactics with Stimulus Control: Modeling, Guidance, and Situational Inducement
17. Alternative Strategies for Decreasing Behavior

PART IV DEALING WITH DATA
18. Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations
19. Direct Behavioral Assessment: What to Record and How
20. Doing Research in Behavior Modification

PART V PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
21. Designing a Program to overcome a behavioural Handicap
22. Token Economies
23. Helping an Individual to Develop Self-Control
24. Systematic Self-Desensitization
25. Cognitive Behavior Modification
26. Areas of Clinical Behavior Therapy

PART IV A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ETHICAL ISSUES
27. Giving it All Some Perspective: A Brief History
28. Ethical Issues.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-439) and indexes.