Overview
- Examines the history and training methods of applied behavioral analysis (ABA)
- Discusses ethical and legal issues of applied behavioral analysis
- Explores ABA assessment, treatment, and health issues
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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About this book
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.
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Keywords
- Academic skills and applied behavior analysis
- Autism, ADHD and applied behavior analysis
- Automatic reinforcement and ABA
- Cell phone use and ABA
- Dental and medical care and ABA
- Functional assessment and ABA
- Geriatric populations and ABA
- Go/no go and applied behavior analysis
- Intellectual and developmental disabilities and ABA
- Mealtime and feeding behavior and ABA
- Musical skills, good behavior game, and ABA
- Prompts, fading, modeling and ABA
- Response interruption and ABA
- Single case designs and applied behavior analysis
- Sleep disturbance and applied behavior analysis
- Smoking reduction and cessation and ABA
- Social skills and validation and ABA
- Substance abuse and applied behavior analysis
- Tacts and mands and ABA
- Vocational skills and applied behavior analysis
Table of contents (67 chapters)
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Foundations
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Applied Behavior Analysis
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology at LSU. He has served as major professor for 71 doctoral students during a 43-year career and he has more than 850 publications, including 51 books. He is founding editor for the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research into Practice
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19964-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19963-9Published: 30 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19966-0Published: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19964-6Published: 29 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 1337
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Education, general, Developmental Psychology