Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis

The second edition of Nonlinear Contingency Analysis gives professionals a powerful framework for understanding complex behavior, and this companion volume shows clinicians exactly what happens when that framework is applied to children, families, adults, and animals facing challenging circumstances.

Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis provides vivid examples and step-by-step case analyses that you can adapt to your own practice. Every case shows how constructional, non-coercive interventions succeed where eliminative models fail. These aren’t abstract theories – they’re replicable roadmaps for transforming behavior across clinical, educational, organizational, and animal settings.

Whether you work in mental health, education, behavior analysis, or animal training, Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis shows how constructional, freedom-expanding interventions can transform lives. If you want to see how nonlinear contingency analysis works in practice – and how to use it yourself – this is the book you need by your side.

Awab Abdel-Jalil, PhD, MS, BCBA-D, is an applied researcher at Upstate Caring Partners and an educator with extensive scholarship and presentations on nonlinear contingency analysis, constructional approaches, and assent-based interventions.

Anna M. Linnehan, PhD, BCBA-D, is an assistant professor at Endicott College, specializing in constructional and nonlinear contingency analyses of complex behavior and emotions, assent-based practice, with extensive scholarly publications and presentations.