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Beteendets ABC : en introduktion till behavioristisk psykoterapi
På senare år har intresset för inlärningspsykologi ökat inom kliniska områden. Det har inneburit såväl ett ökat fokus på beteendeterapins grundmetoder som tillkomsten av flera nya terapimodeller som tydligt har sin grund i behaviorismen.
Beteendets ABC är en grundbok i klinisk inlärningspsykologi och fungerar som en introduktionstext till modern beteendeterapi. Den presenterar både klassiska principer för inlärning och nyare tankegångar, särskilt vad gäller mänskligt språk och kognition. Allt sätts in i ett kliniskt perspektiv med särskilt fokus på inledande bedömning. Genom att väva in kliniska fall ger boken en konkret framställning av en inlärningspsykologiskt förankrad psykoterapi.
Boken är avsedd för grundläggande utbildningar inom psykoterapi, klinisk psykologi och psykiatri men vänder sig också till yrkesverksamma inom psykiatri och relaterade vårdområden.
Beteendets ABC är en grundbok i klinisk inlärningspsykologi och fungerar som en introduktionstext till modern beteendeterapi. Den presenterar både klassiska principer för inlärning och nyare tankegångar, särskilt vad gäller mänskligt språk och kognition. Allt sätts in i ett kliniskt perspektiv med särskilt fokus på inledande bedömning. Genom att väva in kliniska fall ger boken en konkret framställning av en inlärningspsykologiskt förankrad psykoterapi.
Boken är avsedd för grundläggande utbildningar inom psykoterapi, klinisk psykologi och psykiatri men vänder sig också till yrkesverksamma inom psykiatri och relaterade vårdområden.
249 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2006
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September 24, 2014
It's so not magical that it's magical. That's how I feel about Radical (Functional Contextual) Behaviorism.
It's so NOT magical that it's magical.
As a young man, I used to search for magical explanations to ordinary events e.g. I crashed the car because it was my "karma", it was "meant to be", that sort of nonsense. Now that I'm "middle aged" I search for ordinary explanations for "magical" or extraordinary events.
For example; my wife called just as I was thinking about her (wonderful to be sure), not due to psychic connection, but rather born of coincidence i.e. I think of her often and she calls me often. My brain is "hardwired" for pattern recognition and my cognitive facility is biased to attribute significance to events that confirm certain intuitions and filter out stimuli that counters said intuitions. To me, that's so much more powerful than "she caught my vibes".
I know it sounds like a drag. But to me the ordinary, simple and plausible explanations are my new magical. Mostly because they have actual explanatory (and even predictive) power, and to my current "get er done" way of thinking, that's more magical than what typically passes for magic.
Radical (Functional Contextual) Behaviorism is the pinnacle (tantric yoga) of this "get er done" approach explaining and predicting, and dare I say it -manipulating- human behavior (not necessarily a bad thing in the context of psychotherapy provided its transparent and non-coercive).
After working with people with really serious behavioral health issues e.g. substance dependence, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, specific phobia etc. I'm willing to go with what works. And Behavioral Therapy really works for a lot of really difficult to treat stuff. Particularly when delivered with empathy, connection and genuine unconditional positive regard.
The book is kind of unusual in the sense that it explicitly covers behavioral therapy techniques in a comprehensive, step by step way. I say it's unusual, because behavioral therapy (even the functional contextual variety) is typically discussed from within a manual of another broader modality e.g. cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or more recently dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT).
If you want texts on behavioral therapy, you usually get small chapters in textbooks, texts on applied behavioral analysis (ABA), or technical explanations of experimental behaviorism (which is awesome, but not so useful for clinical application).
Frequently the subject of clinical application is handled in a perfunctory way, lacking sufficient detail, or its tailored to a specific population (as in the case of ABA and to a lesser degree DBT texts).
So here is a straight up manual for functional contextual behaviorism, straight no chaiser! and I have to say, I dig it.
I use ACT all the time in my clinical work, but I have to say, much of the clarity of the functional contextual behavioral (FCB) framework that ACT is built on is obscured by the other wonderful ACT stuff e.g. the metaphors and nifty geometric diagrams etc. (practicing ACT is about as close to being a free mason as ill ever get, so I appreciate what little arcana I'm afforded as a behaviorally oriented therapist i.e. not much).
Reading this book is stoking me on grounding my practice in good ol' functional contextual behavioral (e.g. contemporary radical behavioral) therapy techniques.
A good friend hipped me to the fact that if you just formulate the question clearly enough, the answer usually becomes clear. And that is what this book is all about. Collecting excellent, detailed, clear information on observable behavior.
I can recall personal therapy experiences where my therapist would make me explain myself to her "like she was a dummy". By the end of the exercise it would be utterly clear what the matter was. After that the action plan was obvious. That's the kind of therapist I want to be. Focused on listening and clarification (i.e. collecting good data). That is a profound intervention.
It's so not magical that it's magical.
OH MY GOD I ALMOST! FORGOT TO MENTION MY FAVE (x 1,000,000) PART OF THE BOOK!
It's grounded in evolutionary theory. The angels doth sing Hallelujah! Que the heavenly sound of an Apple computer rebooting ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Yes.
I always got the sneaking suspicion that Steven C. Heays kept ACT "evo-free" as a strategic choice in order to not be saddled with the often divisive conversation that seems to inevitably haunt the intersections of spirituality and science.
But behaviorism is hand and glove with evolutionary theory. And frankly speaking, once you introduce affect into the mix, you simply can't avoid the topic.
I use evo-psych and bio-psych (synonyms in my opinion) references all the time in my ACT practice. I wouldn't know how to do ACT without them. It's great to have a text on Functional Contextual Behaviorism integrate these streams. yum!
It's so NOT magical that it's magical.
As a young man, I used to search for magical explanations to ordinary events e.g. I crashed the car because it was my "karma", it was "meant to be", that sort of nonsense. Now that I'm "middle aged" I search for ordinary explanations for "magical" or extraordinary events.
For example; my wife called just as I was thinking about her (wonderful to be sure), not due to psychic connection, but rather born of coincidence i.e. I think of her often and she calls me often. My brain is "hardwired" for pattern recognition and my cognitive facility is biased to attribute significance to events that confirm certain intuitions and filter out stimuli that counters said intuitions. To me, that's so much more powerful than "she caught my vibes".
I know it sounds like a drag. But to me the ordinary, simple and plausible explanations are my new magical. Mostly because they have actual explanatory (and even predictive) power, and to my current "get er done" way of thinking, that's more magical than what typically passes for magic.
Radical (Functional Contextual) Behaviorism is the pinnacle (tantric yoga) of this "get er done" approach explaining and predicting, and dare I say it -manipulating- human behavior (not necessarily a bad thing in the context of psychotherapy provided its transparent and non-coercive).
After working with people with really serious behavioral health issues e.g. substance dependence, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, specific phobia etc. I'm willing to go with what works. And Behavioral Therapy really works for a lot of really difficult to treat stuff. Particularly when delivered with empathy, connection and genuine unconditional positive regard.
The book is kind of unusual in the sense that it explicitly covers behavioral therapy techniques in a comprehensive, step by step way. I say it's unusual, because behavioral therapy (even the functional contextual variety) is typically discussed from within a manual of another broader modality e.g. cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or more recently dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT).
If you want texts on behavioral therapy, you usually get small chapters in textbooks, texts on applied behavioral analysis (ABA), or technical explanations of experimental behaviorism (which is awesome, but not so useful for clinical application).
Frequently the subject of clinical application is handled in a perfunctory way, lacking sufficient detail, or its tailored to a specific population (as in the case of ABA and to a lesser degree DBT texts).
So here is a straight up manual for functional contextual behaviorism, straight no chaiser! and I have to say, I dig it.
I use ACT all the time in my clinical work, but I have to say, much of the clarity of the functional contextual behavioral (FCB) framework that ACT is built on is obscured by the other wonderful ACT stuff e.g. the metaphors and nifty geometric diagrams etc. (practicing ACT is about as close to being a free mason as ill ever get, so I appreciate what little arcana I'm afforded as a behaviorally oriented therapist i.e. not much).
Reading this book is stoking me on grounding my practice in good ol' functional contextual behavioral (e.g. contemporary radical behavioral) therapy techniques.
A good friend hipped me to the fact that if you just formulate the question clearly enough, the answer usually becomes clear. And that is what this book is all about. Collecting excellent, detailed, clear information on observable behavior.
I can recall personal therapy experiences where my therapist would make me explain myself to her "like she was a dummy". By the end of the exercise it would be utterly clear what the matter was. After that the action plan was obvious. That's the kind of therapist I want to be. Focused on listening and clarification (i.e. collecting good data). That is a profound intervention.
It's so not magical that it's magical.
OH MY GOD I ALMOST! FORGOT TO MENTION MY FAVE (x 1,000,000) PART OF THE BOOK!
It's grounded in evolutionary theory. The angels doth sing Hallelujah! Que the heavenly sound of an Apple computer rebooting ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Yes.
I always got the sneaking suspicion that Steven C. Heays kept ACT "evo-free" as a strategic choice in order to not be saddled with the often divisive conversation that seems to inevitably haunt the intersections of spirituality and science.
But behaviorism is hand and glove with evolutionary theory. And frankly speaking, once you introduce affect into the mix, you simply can't avoid the topic.
I use evo-psych and bio-psych (synonyms in my opinion) references all the time in my ACT practice. I wouldn't know how to do ACT without them. It's great to have a text on Functional Contextual Behaviorism integrate these streams. yum!
March 4, 2024
Bra introbok till funktionell kontextualism/radikal behaviorism: allt som finns är beteende, av psykoterapeutiskt intresse — och mer specifikt funktionen av ett beteende som uppstår i en viss kontext som leder till konsekvenser av det givna beteendet.
ABC, SORK, STORK, SBK, SRK osv är olika sätt att benämna denna modell av tillämpad beteendeanalys (TBA/ABA).
Detta är en väldigt behavioristisk osykoterapeutisk bok, men det ger definitivt plats för kognition och affekt(!) i sitt ramverk.
Det som slår mig nu när jag läser KBT-litteratur hur retsamt lika resonemangen är PDT, fast med helt andra ord och grundantaganden. Det cyniska i det hela är den idéhistoriska cynismen mellan dessa två läger mot varandras älsklingskoncept, för att sedan med tiden kopiera varandra UTAN att ge cred. Istället benämner man det som något helt nytt och flashigt:
Överföring och motöverföring (mellan patient och terapeut) är centralt inom PDT och har verkligen ansetts som flum av det andra lägret: detta är nu på engelska CRB (clinically relevant behavior) i KBT-Lingo.
Objektrelarionsteori, att vi reagerar på dåtiden i nuet och därmed kan predicera/manipulera/kontrollera/förstå framtida beteenden är centralt inom PDT. Detta har avfärdats må jag säga av det andra lägret. Men så vips skriver Hayes (stamfadern till ACT, en förgrening inom tredje vågens KBT) att ”The past is the future to the present”.
Att inte vara i kontakt med sina grund/primära/adaptiva affekter är ett fundamentalt fokus inom affektfokuserad terapi och intensiv korttids psykodynamisk terapi (ISPDT): nu skriver man i behavioristiska termer om att ”upplevemässigt undvikande” (av affekt, kopplade kroppsliga förnimmelser) i hög grad bidrar till psykopatologi - det finns det evidens för.
Osv.
Det är bra att man tar av varandra, när det uppenbarligen funkar.
4+
ABC, SORK, STORK, SBK, SRK osv är olika sätt att benämna denna modell av tillämpad beteendeanalys (TBA/ABA).
Detta är en väldigt behavioristisk osykoterapeutisk bok, men det ger definitivt plats för kognition och affekt(!) i sitt ramverk.
Det som slår mig nu när jag läser KBT-litteratur hur retsamt lika resonemangen är PDT, fast med helt andra ord och grundantaganden. Det cyniska i det hela är den idéhistoriska cynismen mellan dessa två läger mot varandras älsklingskoncept, för att sedan med tiden kopiera varandra UTAN att ge cred. Istället benämner man det som något helt nytt och flashigt:
Överföring och motöverföring (mellan patient och terapeut) är centralt inom PDT och har verkligen ansetts som flum av det andra lägret: detta är nu på engelska CRB (clinically relevant behavior) i KBT-Lingo.
Objektrelarionsteori, att vi reagerar på dåtiden i nuet och därmed kan predicera/manipulera/kontrollera/förstå framtida beteenden är centralt inom PDT. Detta har avfärdats må jag säga av det andra lägret. Men så vips skriver Hayes (stamfadern till ACT, en förgrening inom tredje vågens KBT) att ”The past is the future to the present”.
Att inte vara i kontakt med sina grund/primära/adaptiva affekter är ett fundamentalt fokus inom affektfokuserad terapi och intensiv korttids psykodynamisk terapi (ISPDT): nu skriver man i behavioristiska termer om att ”upplevemässigt undvikande” (av affekt, kopplade kroppsliga förnimmelser) i hög grad bidrar till psykopatologi - det finns det evidens för.
Osv.
Det är bra att man tar av varandra, när det uppenbarligen funkar.
4+
June 2, 2020
There is so much in this book to comprehend, this is the first book that I put to re-read again.
I am not a therapist to read this kind of books but still I will recommend this book for everyone to understand what and why they do the things they do, and if they want to change what they do.
This book will help you understand yourself and others so you can work with them to change their behavior, the authors do a great job describing how to analyze behavior and then how to change it, they provide a dialogue between therapist and clients which was very helpful and easy to understand.
I am not a therapist to read this kind of books but still I will recommend this book for everyone to understand what and why they do the things they do, and if they want to change what they do.
This book will help you understand yourself and others so you can work with them to change their behavior, the authors do a great job describing how to analyze behavior and then how to change it, they provide a dialogue between therapist and clients which was very helpful and easy to understand.
August 21, 2024
(9/10) Librazo. Me ha servido mucho para darme una idea basica de la conducta, analisis conductual, relational framing, lenguaje, condicionamiento, etc. Ademas que como lo he leido en ingles pude ir desempolvando mi reading.
August 11, 2012
This book helped me to understand why I do the things I do and most importantly how to make changes. That is not what this book promises however. What it is meant for are therapists who want to understand how behavioral principles can inform their therapeutic work and even explain why some of what they do works.
I'm currently re-reading this book and am finding it even more useful than I did the first time.
I'm currently re-reading this book and am finding it even more useful than I did the first time.
December 26, 2018
A great work of the authors who manage to express basic principles of behavioral theory in a very interesting way. Recommended for therapists not familiar with behavioral theory and relational frame theory.
January 2, 2022
Excellent book providing an introduction and overview emphasizing the behavioral approach. Does a great job tying together elements such as classical and operant conditioning and relational frame theory. Provides some insight into therapy principles as well.
November 14, 2015
Excellent primer or review.
Few times have I seen this spelled out in such a reader friendly manner. Nice. Five more words added now.
Few times have I seen this spelled out in such a reader friendly manner. Nice. Five more words added now.
February 16, 2022
The contents make me grateful I've been professionally trained to make an effort and only listen in an intake setting for approximately two minutes to people with a lot to say.
July 23, 2022
Should be required reading for all therapists who aim to work from a CBT lens.
November 24, 2023
The ABC's of Human Behavior
Great book introducing behavioral principles and behavioral management! I highly recommend reading the book. Behavioral principles are very insightful. The book is a good read.
Great book introducing behavioral principles and behavioral management! I highly recommend reading the book. Behavioral principles are very insightful. The book is a good read.
January 13, 2021
A solid refresher or primer for anyone already knee-deep in clinical work. Fascinating for anyone very interested in behaviourism in general. Written in an accessible manner, with practical tips.
October 25, 2022
Fantastiskt bra!
March 11, 2025
Very informative, very boring
February 22, 2017
Lo estoy leyendo porque curso septimo semestre y estoy viendo Clinica
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