Behavioral Relaxation Training, 3/E

by Duane Lundervold, Roger Poppen, John Guercio

Praise from "In my career, I have found a handful of resources that I believe belong close at hand to every clinician, applied researcher, and student of human service fields. Behavioral Relaxation Clinical Applications with Diverse Populations, Third Edition is one of them. I have always been very impressed with the simple elegance of BRT and its adaptability to the gamut of applications so well covered in this volume. The reader is immediately exposed to a view of the range of applicability of BRT. Each chapter subsequently exposes the reader to a review of the basic components of BRT, its research and clinical history, means for measuring relaxation, rules for relaxation, and of considerable importance, the role of the trainer. Chapters also have relevant supplements providing additional details of assessments and measures and other relevant information such as Behavior Analyst certification. The entire book is like BRT itself, simply elegant. It is easy to read, magnificently thorough without in any way being cumbersome, and at the same time, concise. It will be remarkably useful for clinicians and researchers to use it with a singular problem of focus, or with the panoply of disorders covered. It is a gift to clinicians and researchers" —Dr. John R. Lutzker, Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University "Behavioral Relaxation Clinical Applications with Diverse Populations, Third Edition is a welcome update to a valuable clinical resource. It provides a rigorous behavioral conceptual and data-based methodological framework in a highly user-friendly manner, readily lending itself to practical application of the effective procedures to socially relevant behaviors. This latest edition expands the client populations and behavior challenges that are addressed, accompanied with supportive data. The authors candidly note the varying strength of the supporting data for various specific applications of BRT and set the occasion for

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Published January 1, 2020