Applications of operant techniques in treatment and education have proliferated in recent
years. Among the various techniques, the token economy has been particu larly popular …

Schools traditionally have viewed the process of equipping students with the necessary
academic skills, ie, reading, writing and arithmetic, as being their primary, and in some …

Assignments and activities are presented on the Blackboard site including point values
Assignments are chosen from activities that vary in nature from answering direct questions …

Continuing the tradition of excellence established in previous editions, distinguished
researcher, practitioner, and educator Alan Kazdin integrates pioneering and recent …

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a science and, therefore, involves progressive
approaches and outcomes. In this commentary we argue that the spirit and the method of …

This interdisciplinary book presents a comprehensive conceptual and methodological
treatment of intervention research, a developing area of empirical inquiry that aims to make …

The rising prominence of adolescent violence among national concerns has prompted
increasing demands for efforts to curb this urgent problem. These demands have resulted in …

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught
in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

In this paper, both longitudinal and treatment studies relevant to conduct disorder (CD) are
reviewed, and a developmental approach to its prevention is presented. Outcome studies for …