Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It

by Garry L. Martin

This easy-to-use handbook is ideal for practitioners concerned with overcoming behavioral deficits and excesses in a wide variety of populations and settings. Written in a reader-friendly style that assumes no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology, it provides a comprehensive, practical presentation of both the elementary principles of behavior modification and step-by-step “how-to” guidelines for their application. Includes real-life cases and examples throughout. Getting A Behavior To Occur More Often With Positive Reinforcement. Developing And Maintaining Behavior With Conditioned Reinforcement. Decreasing A Behavior With Extinction. Developing Behavioral Persistence Through The Use Of Intermittent Reinforcement. Types Of Intermittent Reinforcement To Decrease Behavior. Doing The Right Thing At The Right Time And Place: Stimulus Discrimination And Stimulus Generalization. Developing Appropriate Behavior With Fading. Getting A New Behavior To Occur: An Application Of Shaping. Getting A New Behavior To Occur With Behavioral Chaining. Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior Through Punishment. Establishing A Desirable Behavior By Using Escape And Avoidance Conditioning. Procedures Based On Principles Of Respondent Conditioning. Respondent And Operant Conditioning Together. Transferring Behavior To New Settings And Making It Last: Generality Of Behavior Change. Capitalizing On Existing Stimulus Control: Rules And Goals, Modeling, Guidance, And Situational Inducement. Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations. Direct Behavioral Assessment: What To Record And How. Functional Assessment Of The Causes Of Problem Behavior. Planning, Applying, And Evaluating A Treatment Program. Token Economies. Helping An Individual To Develop Self-Control. Systematic Self-Desensitization. Cognitive Behavior Modification. Areas Of Clinical Behavior Therapy. Ethical Issues. For practitioners of various helping professions who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavioral development (e.g., education, counseling, clinical psychology, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, social work, speech therapy, sport psychology, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy).

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction, Science

470 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1978

About the author

Dr. Garry Martin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He received his M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Arizona State University and has taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba from the fall of 1966 until his retirement in 2008. He has co-authored or co-edited 8 books. His co-authored books on behavioral psychology are used as primary texts at over 200 universities in several countries, and have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean. His best-selling textbook is Behavior Modification: What it is and How to Do It, co-authored by Dr. Joseph Pear

In 2006 Dr. Garry Martin was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Manitoba, recognizing his “outstanding professional achievement and community service.”

Garry Martin has co-authored more than 150 papers, published in refereed journals, on behavior modification/applied behavior analysis programming and research in developmental disabilities, autism, behavior therapy, organizational behavior management, and sport psychology. He has supervised 39 Masters theses and 35 PhD theses at the University of Manitoba, served as an external PhD thesis examiner for 8 other universities, and served on the editorial board of 7 psychology journals. He has received numerous important awards. In addition to extensive research in developmental disabilities, Garry Martin is an expert in Sport Psychology.

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the only books I kept from my degree coursework in Applied Behavioral Science. It's a great primer on the history and methods of this school of psychology.

[Martin Screeton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unless you are interested in childhood behavior... leave this OFF your reading and/or study list. This one is about as exciting as blank paper.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't believe I read this entire book...

[Menoedh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bukunya ringan. Untuk orang-orang di luar psikologi bisa cepet paham. Buku ini juga ngga ngomongin dari sisi threapy, hence the name modification.

Banyak contoh-contoh kasus atau aplikasi dunia nyata yang bikin lebih cepat teori-teorinya dipahami. Mungkin yang agak nyusahin adalah, si penulis (atau mungkin aliran behavioris) kebanyakan ngasih istilah untuk suatu fenomena atau tretament

[Kathrynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Behavior Modification is one of my favorite subjects. Methods in this book can be used in parenting, animal training, MARRIAGE! etc. One of my favorites and another book I will never part with.

[Steve Albert · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the most poorly written and disorganized text books I've ever seen. Lot's of formatting errors and there just isn't any sort of flow.

[Ossy Firstan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read, pretty good.

[Weytel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bom livro para pegar conceitos básicos, mas super desatualizado considerando a prática clínica.