Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice

Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behavior problems such as delusions and hallucinations. It’s also a framework for treating behavior problems, one that explores solutions based on the creation of new or alternative consequential contingencies rather than the elimination or deceleration of old or problematic thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

Chapters present strategies, analytical tools, and interventions that clinicians can use in session to think about clients’ problems using decision theory, experimental analysis of behavior, and clinical research and practice.

By treating thoughts and emotions not as causes of behavior but as indicators of the environmental conditions that are responsible for them, patients can use that knowledge to make changes that not only result in changes in behavior, but in the thoughts and feelings themselves.

T. V. Joe Layng, PhD, partner at Generategy, LLC.

Paul Thomas Andronis, PhD, Professor Emeritus of psychological sciences at Northern Michigan University.

R. Trent Codd III, EdS, executive director at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina.

Awab Abdel-Jalil, MS, constructional coach at Eastern Florida Autism Center/Great Leaps Academy and graduate student in clinical behavioral psychology.