Helping in the Community: Behavioral Applications

by Garry Bach (Editor)

Overview

During the late 1960s and the 1970s, behavioral applications expanded from individual programs and institutional projects to a wide variety of community problems and settings. These developments prompted the organization of an international conference on behavior modification in the community that was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in July of 1976. Many of the presenters at that conference described original be­ havioral programs in a variety of community settings that have not been published elsewhere. This book was prompted by that conference. Its purposes are to describe the updated conference proceedings and, with additional original contributions, to heuristically relate community psy­ chology and applied behavior analysis. The first section presents an overview of the salient characteristics of community psychology, proposes a broad conceptualization of be­ havioral community psychology, and provides an overview of the prom­ ise that behavior modification holds for helping in the community. The papers in the next four sections describe the results of the application of behavior modification in the community-a collective statement on the current state of behavioral community intervention. These papers are organized around four main topics: "Facilitating Behavioral Community Development," "Helping People by Influencing Mediators and Sys­ tems," "Helping Groups Live Together," and "Helping Individuals Help Themselves. " This organization stems from the broad conceptuali­ zation of behavioral community psychology presented in the first sec­ tion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468436945
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/25/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I Introduction: Behavior Modification in the Community.- II Facilitating Behavioral Community Development: Introduction and Overview.- 1 Reactions to a Forthcoming Energy Shortage: A Topic in Behavioral Ecology.- 2 Saving Environmental Resources through Waste Reduction and Recycling: How the Behavioral Community Psychologist Can Help.- 3 Controlling the Litter Problem.- 4 Some Measurement Scales for Public Housing and Urban Development.- III Helping People by Influencing Mediators and Systems: Introduction and Overview.- 5 On the Training of Mediators in Behavior Modification.- 6 A Comparison of Two Delivery Systems of Home Programs for Parents of Retarded Children.- 7 Installing and Maintaining a Behavior Modification System in a School for the Deaf.- 8 Use of Mediators in a Behavior Modification Clinic in Brazil.- 9 Systems Development in a Community Mental Health Center.- IV Helping Groups Live Together: Introduction and Overview.- 10 Helping College Students Live Together: Democratic Decision-Making versus Experimental Manipulation.- 11 Five Years at Kin Kare: A Behavioral Residence for Severely Retarded Girls.- V Helping Individuals Help Themselves: Introduction and Overview.- 12 A Strategy for Generating Self-Help.- 13 Systematic Self-Desensitization of Fear of Flying.- VI Problems of Implementation: Introduction and Overview.- 14 Social, Political, and Cultural Challenges to Behavioral Programs in the Community.- 15 Problems of Traditional Sympathies.- 16 Licensure and Certification of Behavior Modifiers: Are They Needed?.- 17 The Growth of Professional Concerns in Applied Behavior Analysis: Mixed Feelings.- VII A Future Concern: Introduction and Overview.- 18 A Vision of Community Development.- Author Index.