Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy presents innovative approaches to various societal problems worldwide. Contributors explore issues from diverse areas such as behavioral medicine, education, developmental disability, poverty, problematic behavior, and developmental considerations (ie., early family experiences and aging process). The volume stimulates ideas for research, prevention, and treatment, as well as for managing other modern ills including homelessness, crime, and aggression.

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emContemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy/em presents innovative approaches to various societal problems worldwide. Contributors explore issues from diverse areas such as behavioral medicine, education, developmental disability, poverty, problematic behavior, and developmental considerations (ie., early family experiences and aging process). The volume stimulates ideas for research, prevention, and treatment, as well as for managing other modern ills including homelessness, crime, and aggression.

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1. Introduction.- I. Behavioral Medicine.- 2. Medical Nonadherence: A Behavior Analysis.- 3. Covert Conditioning in Behavioral Medicine: Strategies for Psycho-oncology.- 4. The Nature of Walking: A Foundation for the Experimental Analysis of Orientation and Mobility.- 5. Treatment of Substance Abuse in Older Adults.- 6. Behavior Analysis and HIV Prevention: A Call to Action.- 7. Improving Eating Habits: A Stimulus-Control Approach to Lifestyle Change.- 8. Memory Rehabilitation Techniques with Brain-Injured Individuals.- II. Education.- 9. Acting to Save Our Schools (19841994).- 10. A University for the Twenty-First Century.- 11. The Primacy of the Initial Learning Experience: The Incredible Gift of Learning.- III. Developmental Disabilities.- 12. Improving the Human Condition through Communication Training in Autism.- IV. Social Issues.- 13. The Social Relevance of Applied Behavior Analysis and Psychological Intervention Strategies.- 14. From Aircrib to Walden Two: B. F. Skinner and Cultural Design.- 15. Perspectives on the Problem of Poverty.- V. Clinical Applications.- 16. Behavior Therapy-Generated Insight.- 17. Some Applications of Behavioral Principles to Sport and Exercise Enhancement.- 18. Training the Client to Be Empathetic.- VI. Developmental Considerations.- 19. The Making of a Stable Family.- 20. Putting the Gold Back in the Golden Years.- VII. Philosophical Issues.- 21. Wisdom as the Key to a Better World.- 22. Afterword.- About the Contributors.