Behaviour analysis emerged from the nonhuman laboratories of B. F.
Skinner, Fred Keller, Nate Schoenfeld, Murray Sidman, James
Dinsmoor, Richard Herrnstein, Nate Azrin, and others who pioneered
experimental preparations designed to do one thing - find orderly
relations between environment and behaviour. This bottom-up
approach to a natural science of behaviour yielded a set of
behavioural principles that proved orderly and replicable across
subjects, laboratories, and species. By the 1960s, behaviour
analysts began translating these principles into interventions for
institutionalised humans characterised by impoverished repertoires
of adaptive behaviour. When these interventions proved successful
in replacing problem- with adaptive-behaviour, the field of Applied
Behaviour Analysis was born. Over the last 50 years the field of
behaviour analysis has grown substantially both in the number of
practicing behaviour analysts and the range of behaviour to which
behavioural principles have been applied. Today the laboratory
study of basic principles of behaviour continues to expand our
understanding of behaviour and to inform the treatment of disorders
ranging from autism to substance abuse. The present volumes
continue this inductive translational approach to the science of
behaviour analysis by providing overview and in-depth chapters
spanning the breadth of behaviour analysis. Volume I: Methods and
Principles provides comprehensive coverage of the logic, clinical
utility, and methods of single-case research designs. Chapters walk
the reader through the design, data collection, and data analysis
phases and are appropriate for students, researchers, and
clinicians concerned with best practice. Volume I also provides an
overview of the experimental analysis of behaviour, and chapters
reviewing some of the most important areas of contemporary
laboratory research in behaviour analysis. Topics covered include
memory, attention, choice, behavioural neuroscience, and
behavioural pharmacology. Volume II: Translating Principles into
Practice includes 10 chapters illustrating how principles of
behaviour discovered in basic-science laboratories have provided
insights on socially important human behaviour ranging from the
complex discriminations that underlie human language to disorders
treated by clinical psychologists. The second section of Volume II
includes 12 chapters, each devoted to a particular
behavioural/developmental disorder (e.g., behavioural treatments of
ADHD, autism) or to behaviour of societal importance (e.g.,
effective college teaching, effective treatment of substance
abuse). Each of these chapters provides a review of what works and
where additional research is needed.
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