The ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician

Jonas Ramnerö; Niklas Törneke

ISBN 10: 1572245387 / ISBN 13: 9781572245389

Edité par New Harbinger Publications; Context Press, 2008

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• Titre: The ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician
• Éditeur: New Harbinger Publications; Context Press
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1572245387
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781572245389
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

When cognitive behaviour therapy emerged in 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behaviour principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists. But as the new "third-wave" behaviour therapies begin to address weaknesses in the traditional cognitive behavioural models - principally the modest effectiveness of thought stopping and cognitive restructuring techniques - basic behaviour principles are once again attracting the interest of front-line clinicians.

Many of today's clinicians, though, received their training during the years in which classical behaviourism was not a major part of clinical education. In order to make the best use of the new contextual behaviourism, they need to revisit basic behavioural principles from a practical angle.This book addresses this need. "The ABCs of Human Behavior" offers practicing clinicians a practical introduction to the basics of modern behavioural psychology. The book focuses both on the classical principles of learning as well as more recent developments that explain language and cognition in behavioural and contextual terms.

Practical and easy to read, the book walks clinicians through both common sense and clinical examples that help them learn to use behavioural principles to observe, explain, and influence behaviour in a therapeutic setting.

À propos de l?auteur

Niklas Törneke, MD, is a psychiatrist and has worked as a senior psychiatrist in the department of general psychiatry in his hometown Kalmar (in the southeast of Sweden) from 1991 until he started private practice 1998. He earned license as a psychotherapist in 1996 and was originally trained as a cognitive therapist. Since 1998 he has worked mainly with acceptance and commitment therapy, both in his own practice and as a teacher and clinical supervisor. His clinical experience ranges from psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia to common anxiety and mood disorders with high prevalence in the general population.