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New Ideas in Therapy Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach

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Douglas H. Ruben, Dennis J. Delprato

Book Code: RNI/

ISBN: 0-313-24845-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-24845-0

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235 pages, charts

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/16/1987

List Price: $117.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Series Title: Contributions in Psychology

Series Number: 10

Reviews:

The rarely presented interbehavioral approach to theraphy adds to the radical behavioral approach an emphasis on context and interrelatedness. This is a valuable framework for complex behavior analyses. The anthology covers the foundations of this approach and then discusses applications to current issues ranging from individual therapy through training and community-based programs to implications for public policy. Although it lacks a definition for `interbehavior' and assumes reader familiarity with psychological jargon, the characteristics of the approach are explained clearly and are reiterated in most of the individual chapters. The chapters on psychopathology and Q methodology are sufficiently theoretical that they are not likely to be useful to undergraduates; however, chapters that deal with families, parent training, assertiveness teaching, and risk factor management are likely to provide advanced undergraduates with a new perspective on topics of practical interest.
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Description: According to the editors of New Ideas in Therapy, cognitive behaviorist theory is increasingly hampered by intrinsic theoretical limitations. A promising alternative and the subject of this book is interbehaviorism--a theory introduced by the late J.R. Kantor that looks at clinical events in terms of multiple causes and relationships operating within a integrated field or system. Written by a distinguished group of researchers and practitioners who have expanded upon Kantor's work, this study presents a new account of therapy that demonstrates, for the first time, how his field theory can be applied in modern clinical practice.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Section I: Foundations of the New Therapy
What Qualifies Interbehavioral Psychology as an Approach to Treatment? by J.R.Kantor
Theory versus Practice by N.H. Pronko
From the Classroom to the Field and Back by Paul R. Fuller
Section II: Methods
The Interbehavioral Approach to Psychopathology by Robert W. Lundin

Interbehavioral Approach to Clinical Child Psychology: Toward an Understanding of Troubled Families by Robert G. Wahler and Della M. Hann

Toward an Interbehavioral Medicine by F. Dudley McGlynn, Edwin W. Cook, III, and Paul E. Greenbaum

Q-Methodology: Interbehavioral and Quantum Theoretical Connections in Clinical Psychology by William Stephenson

Assumptions about Teaching Assertiveness: Training the Person or Behavior? by Douglas H. Ruben and Marilyn J. Ruben

Multidisciplinary Approach to Obesity and Risk Factor Management by Dallas W. Stevenson and Michael Hemingway

Interbehavioral Perspectives on Legal Deviance: Some Considerations of Context by Edward K. Morris, Lisa M. Johnson, Steven E. Larson, Lynda K. Powell, James T. Todd, and Jane B. Atwater

An Interbehavioral Perspective on Parent Training for Families of Developmentally Delayed Children by Lynne A. Daurelle, Ann P. Kaiser, and James C. Fox

Community-Based Psychological Services for Developmentally Retarded Persons by Mary Ann Scafasci

Public Policy Research from a Field-Theory Perspective by Donna M. Cone

Value of "New Ideas" by Douglas H. Ruben and Dennis J. Delprato

General Subject Index

LC Card Number: 86-31922

LCC Class: RC489

Dewey Class: 616.89


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