Progress in Behavior Modification. Volume 23.

Hersen, Michael., Eisler, Richard M., Miller, Peter M., eds.

ISBN 10: 0803933150 / ISBN 13: 9780803933156

Published by Sage Publications, Newbury Park., CA., 1988

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8vo, hardcover. Volume 23. No dj. Vg condition. Single health lib. stamp to front endpaper. Spine label neatly removed. Binding tight, contents clean. 210 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Progress in Behavior Modification. Volume 23.
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Newbury Park., CA.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803933150
• ISBN 13: 9780803933156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Volume 23 includes such topics as: } critical evaluations on the use of the cognitive-behavioural approach in the treatment of Bulimia Nervosa and alcoholic behaviour } social skills training with chronic mental patients } the efficacy and ethics of applying paradoxical theory and intervention } peer-based assessment in the study of children′s social competence } worksite smoking cessation programmes.

About the Author

Michel Hersen (Ph.D., ABPP, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966) is Professor and Dean of the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University.  He completed his post-doctoral training at the West Have VA (Yale University School of Medicine Program).  He is Past President of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  He has coauthored and co-edited 146 books and has published 225 scientific journal articles.  He is co-editor of several psychological journals, including Behavior Modification, Aggression & Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, Clinical Psychology Review, and Journal of Family Violence.  He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders and of Clinical Case Studies, which is totally devoted to description of clients and patients treated with psychotherapy.  He is Editor-in-Chief of the 4-volume work, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment.  He has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the National Institute of Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.  He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Distinguished Practitioner and Member of the National Academy of Practice in Psychology, and recipient of the Distinguished Career Achievement Award in 1996 from the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists and Psychodiagnosticians.  Finally, at one point in his career, he was in full-time private practice and on several occasions he has had part-time private practices.