Resources for Learning About Behavior Analysis
April 15, 2008 - 9:42am — admin
Below is a working list of resources available to learn about behavior analysis. If you know of other helpful resources please add a sub-page to this one with the relevant information.
Websites:
- The Analysis of Behavior: A Program for Self-Instruction, Holland, J.G. & Skinner, B.F..
This website has a free program for PCs that teaches basic behavioral concepts using an interactive format.
- The Behaviorism Tutorial, Moore, J.
This website has a free tutorial that teaches behavioral concepts.
- A Glossary of Some Terms Used in the Objective Science of Behavior, Verplanck, B.
This website provides a list of definitions for behavioral terms.
- The Behavior Analysis Archive at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This website contains a variety of material related to behavior analysis.
Books:
- Ramnero, J., & Torneke, N. (March 2008). ABCs of human behavior: Behavioral principles for the practicing clinician. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger & Reno, NV: Context Press.
It's a basic behavior analysis book for clinicians/ M.D.s/ psychiatrists/ etc. who haven't had training in BA. Goes all the way up to RFT.
- Woods, D. W., & Kanter, J. W. (Eds.). (2007). Understanding behavior disorders: A contemporary behavioral perspective. Reno, NV: Context Press.
This volume presents a contemporary behavioral model of behavior disorders that incorporates the findings of current RFT and ACT research. Rich in possibilities for clinical work, this view of disordered behavior is an important milestone in clinical psychotherapy - an opportunity for behavioral clinicians to reintegrate their clinical practice with an experimental analysis of behavior.
- Leigland, S. (1992). Radical behaviorism: Willard Day on psychology and philosophy. Reno, NV: Context Press.
Puts Skinner's work in context; links history/philosophy and the battles of minds as a background to RFT/ACT.
- Hayes, S. C. (Ed.). (1989/2004). Rule Governed behavior: Cognition, contingencies, and instructional control. New York: Plenum / reprinted in 2004 by Context Press.
One of the first full-length presentations of the ACT / RFT model is in three chapters in this book on the topic. This book is now available in paperback from Context Press.
- Cooper, J.O., Heron, T.E. & Heward, W.L. (2007). Applied Behavior Analysis (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall.
- Skinner, B.F. (1965). Science and Human Behavior. Free Press.
- Catania, C. (1992). Learning. Prentice Hall.
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