Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training
Language: English
Published by Academic Press, 2025
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- Title
- Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training
- Author
- Sturmey PhD, Peter; Maffei-Almodovar, Lindsay
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 044316066X
- ISBN 13
- 9780443160660
Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.
This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).
- Features step-by-step guide to implementing Behavioral Skills Training (BST)
- Improves client problem behavior, independence, and autonomy
- Covers instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback
- Includes mastery criteria, online BST, and assessing social validity
- Provides chapter summary bullets of key points
- Provides a resource that is appropriate for clinical practice and ABA certification review
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About the Author
Dr. Peter Sturmey is a retired professor of psychology who remains active in research and writing. He is affiliated with Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Brock University, Ontario; and Endicott University, Massachusetts. Prof. Sturmey brings more than three decades of research experience in Applied Behavior Analysis, including teaching and supervising master and doctoral-level ABA student research.
Dr. Lindsay Maffei-Almodovar, PhD, BCBA, LBA has worked in the field of education for 17 years. She is a New York State certified classroom teacher and has taught in general and special education classrooms and in home-based environments. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has worked in a variety of roles, often involving both direct care service and staff support, development, and training. Her research focuses on caregiver training, specifically for direct care staff. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has published staff training research in Behavior Analysis in Practice as well as a meta-analysis on staff training in the Review Journal on Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She also has published chapters in the Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology the Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar is currently the ABA Training & Development Coordinator of the QSAC Preschool, Whitestone Day School and Bronx Day School.
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