25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts: Expert Tips for Maximizing Consulting Effectiveness
25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Professional Behavior Analyst is a much needed guidebook for behavior analysts who want to become successful at consulting. Jon Bailey and Mary Burch present five basic skills and strategy areas that professional behavior analysts need to acquire. This book is organized around those five areas, with a total of 25 specific skills presented within those topics. Every behavior analyst, whether seasoned or beginning, should have this book.
Learning from Behavior: How to Understand and Help Challenging Children in School
In Learning from Behavior, Levine shows us how to observe, question, and think about problem behaviors in such a way that we can understand what is motivating the children to act as they do. Behavior, after all, often represents what the child cannot communicate, due to language limitations, level of psychological development, or traumatic experience. Children think differently; they are not small adults.
Academic Encounters: Human Behavior. Reading, Study Skills, Writing. SBAcademic Encounters: Human Behavior is a reading, study skills, and writing book that uses authentic readings from college textbooks to introduce students to stimulating topics in psychology and communications. High-interest topics include: intelligence, body language, and love. Exercises that accompany the readings leach important reading and study skills, such as speed reading, guessing meaning from context, and examining graphs and figures.
There are many more psychopathic personalities living among us than the general public and professionals first supposed. The troublesome brother or sister - the boyfriend or girlfriend we love but are puzz,led by their inconsistant behavior; the teacher, physician or lawyer whose behavior makes us think we are crazy, are among the many. This book puts the victims ( usually family members or their loved ones) in a position of understanding how to deal with the individual who has no conscience and no emotional feelings.
Motivation and Emotion provides an explanation of emotional experience and aspects of human behavior using psychological, physiological, and alternative approaches. The brain mechanisms that govern motivations are discussed and questions such as 'Why don't we eat ourselves to death?' and 'How do we know we are thirsty?' are answered. Types of emotional responses and explanations of emotional behavior are covered. The book analyzes psychological, physiological, and combined approaches to theories of motivation and emotion.
