Drawing on their professional background and experience in addiction assessment and treatment, authors Douglas A. Quirk and Reg M. Reynolds detail a multi-year project to understand the motivations underlying addiction to alcohol and various street drugs, and the development of a simple and effective approach to their treatment and possible prevention. In this book, they describe the results of a successful treatment program that was carried out at the Ontario Correctional Institute, a correctional treatment center for alcoholics, drug abusers.....
A 10-year research project to understand and treat criminality has led to the development of a new test of criminal thinking, Survey of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviours (STFB) and a new understanding of criminality as six sets of angry distress-rejecting attitudes and behaviours on the part of offenders — behaviours that put them into conflict with society and get them in trouble with the law. This new understanding of criminality suggested the development of six different treatment programs, one for.....
An ABA Primer (with application to teaching children with autism) can be of immense help to the parents and instructors of children with autism since (1) it is inexpensive, particularly as an e-book, (2) it provides a very good introduction to teaching in general and teaching children with autism in particular, (3) it can guide parents through the entire process of getting their children to be able to fit in educationally and socially, (4) it tells you the skills to.....
Chapter 1. Sex! Now That You’re Paying Attention… If you are going to talk about psychology, there is a rule (maybe an unwritten one) that you have to start right off talking about sex. Partly, this is because many people think that that’s all psychotherapists think about. And maybe some do. Partly, this common misconception comes about because many people don’t know that psychology has advanced a long way past Freud’s (a dirty old man who fathered psychotherapy) pre-scientific grasp.....
Miscellaneous Musings is a collection of papers on psychology and religion — An Introduction to Hypnosis; On Being Perfect; Four Kinds of Communication in Psychotherapy and Life; TAGteach (Using Clicker Training with Humans); How Shall We View God?; The Use of the MMPI in Teaching Personality Assessment (with Dr. Stephen Bernstein); An Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming; Women’s Lib, Witchcraft, and Sex; A Meditation on the Lord’s prayer; Prelude to the Energy Therapies; Sentence Severity – A practical Measure of Offence.....
This book, Creating Peace, is at once a novel, a self-help book, and a manual for an engrossing game framed in essentially rational, problem-solving terms and an exploration of the motivations by means of which we create disturbance within ourselves and conflict with others – the final causes (our beliefs, goals, purposes, needs, and values) and the perpetuation causes (the rewards and reinforcers) that drive us toward either conflict or peace and appropriate means by which to modify them.