Main description:

Written by world-renowned Behavior Scientist, Israel Goldiamond -
Explores the definitions and wide-ranging behaviors exhibited during mental health disorders through a lens of radical behaviorism
Will appeal to anyone working in the analysis of, and clinical interventions in, mental health

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. The Analytic System to be used
i. Confusions between formulations
ii. Reactive and consequential relations
iii. Traditional and radical behaviorism
iv. Operationism and inner events
v. Other consequential systems
vi. Programing and paradigms

III. The Origins of Behavior Patterns
i. Sources
ii. Cultural inheritance
iii. Programing disturbing and undisturbing contingencies
iv. Programs for mental health/illness

IV. Societal Contingencies of the Pathology Model
i. The individual social selection parallel
ii. Contingencies of pathological ideology and alternatives

References

Appendix A - The Search for an Effective Clinical Behavior Analysis: The nonlinear Thinking of Israel Goldiamond