Behavioral Case Formulation and Intervention

Peter Sturmey is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Queen’s College, City University of New York. He is recognized as an international authority on functional assessment, and published Functional Analysis in Clinical Psychology with Wiley in 1996. More recently, he co-edited Offenders with Developmental Disabilities with Bill Lindsay and John Taylor in 2004.

?I would recommend this book to students of psychology, psychologists, psychology departments located in university and hospital settings, libraries in university and hospital settings, psychiatrists, social workers and health behavior departments in university settings.? (Drug and Alcohol Review , September 2009)

• About the Author ixPreface xiAcknowledgements xviiPart I Behaviorism and Basic Learning Concepts 1Chapter 1 Structural and Functional Approaches to Case Formulation 3Chapter 2 Radical Behaviorism 21Chapter 3 Respondent Behavior 37Chapter 4 Operant Behavior I: Characteristics, Acquisition and Stimulus Control 53Chapter 5 Operant Behavior II: Satiation and Deprivation, Extinction, Shaping, Variability and Punishment 79Chapter 6 Complex Behavior I: Modeling, Chaining and Self-Regulation 99Chapter 7 Complex Behavior II: Rule-Governed Behavior, Stimulus Equivalence and Verbal Behavior 117Part II Case Formulation 141Chapter 8 Nonbehavioral approaches to case formulation 143Chapter 9 Wolpe’s Tradition of Case Formulation 169Chapter 10 Skinner and Psychotherapy 183Chapter 11 Behavioral Case Formulation 195Chapter 12 Behavioral Assessment 225Chapter 13 Outstanding Issues and Future Directions 259References 289Index 321