Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change

by Beth Sulzer-Azaroff and Roy G. Mayer

Book Overview

Introduces the concepts and methods of applied behavior analysis based on solid theory and research. Provides strategies for developing and implementing solutions to problem situations. Emphasizes a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030329442
• ISBN13: 9780030329449
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change

This text deals with methods and stragegies of analyzing and modifying behaviors. Within the text I specifically focused on chapter nine through twelve which involved increasing behavior through the use of positive reinforcement. I also give special attention to chapters twenty-four and twenty-five dealing with decreasing behaviors incompatible with underisable behavior, and to a lesser extent the use of punishment. Mastery of these tools will enable teachers to effectively deal with most of the situations faced in today's classroom.

Best summary of Applied Behavior Analysis

If you want to change things, you always have to take human behavior into account. Behavior analysis is the science that does this very precisely. It helps you to measure and to change the behaviors of yourself and others for getting the results that you want. The book of Beth Sulzer-Azaroff en Roy Mayer gives an excellent summary of the way behavior can be changed succesfully. It tells you how to measure behavior, how to increase desirable behavior, how to decrease undesirable behavior and how to extend and maintain behavior. If you really want to understand behavior and concrete tools to change it, you should read this book. Marius Rietdijk Assistant professor Business and Economics Free University Amsterdam, Holland

Vital book for school change and responsiveness to change

This book is essential for anyone seriously considering a role of leadership in schools or districts. In the book, the reader learns about excellent and practical science to make schools a better place. There is not a topic that isn't covered. All of the practical issues are present. Yes, the book uses the language of very good behavioral sciences, and that is appropriate. With all the headline things that have happened in the world with schools, its important that major leaders in schools have good grounding in practical science of behavior change. What's really neat about the book is that almost everything in its is doable. You can make it happen. In my own landmark research on youth violence, I could not have done it without standing on the shoulders of giants like Beth Sulzer-Azaroff and G.Roy Mayer. Every future teacher or administrator has to have studied this book.