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Clinical Behavior Therapy with Adults

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Handbook of Behavior Therapy in the Psychiatric Setting

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry ((CIPS))

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The history of behavior therapy can be roughly divided into three partially overlapping phases or eras: development, scientific documentation, and dissemination. The development phase comprises the first 10 or so years, in which Wolpe, Skinner, Lazarus, Cautela, Ayllon, Azrin, and others invented an entirely new repertoire of clinical techniques: systematic desensitization, contingency management, the token economy, thought stopping, and so on (Kazdin, 1978). The second phase, which comprised 10-15 years, established the efficacy of behavioral techniques. Stimulated by a series of seminal group-comparison studies by Paul, Lang, Davison, and others and by single-case designs by Hersen, Barlow, Leitenberg, Agras, and others, a new generation of clinical scientists conducted dozens of controlled trials that documented the superiority of the behavioral approach to other psychosocial strategies and our ability to modify behavior that had previously been thought to be intractable (Bellack, Hersen, & Kazdin, 1990).

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    Alan S. Bellack

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Bellack, A.S., Hersen, M. (1993). Clinical Behavior Therapy with Adults. In: Bellack, A.S., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Behavior Therapy in the Psychiatric Setting. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2430-8_1

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