Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Below is a working list of resources available to learn about behavior analysis. If you know of other helpful resources please add a sub-page to this one with the relevant information.

Resources on this website:

• What is Behavior Analysis.
  

  Provides a basic description of behavior analysis.

• RFT study group for beginners.
  

  This page includes summaries of chapters from the RFT book that were created from a study group in 2006.

• Empirical RFT Studies.
  

  Provides a list of empirical RFT studies with links to the articles for downloading.

• Suggested readings (UNDER CONSTRUCTION).
  

  This is a working list of articles that can be accessed from this site on various topics in behavior analysis

• SI 4 Powerpoint Presentations on RFT.
  

  This page includes several powerpoints on RFT from SI 4 in Chicago.

• From Mechanism to Functionalism - or: What is Avoided in Emotional Avoidance?
  

  This page includes a powerpoint presentation by Rainer Sonntag on emotions from a functional contextual perspective.

• Contextualism.
  

  This section of the website provides a variety of resources to learn more about contextualism, which is strongly linked to radical behaviorism.

Websites:

• The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
  

  You can find a lot about behavior analysis at the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, which is the oldest, best established, and best known publicly focused foundation in behavioral psychology.

• Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA).
  

  This is the main website for ABA. We invite people who would never think of themselves as "behaviorists," and yet for whom the world of ACT and RFT resonates, to come to an ABA conference or a conference of similar societies world wide (but bring a knowledgable guide with you!). You will be very comfortable with the contextualistic work presented at such meetings and the program is filled with ACT and RFT work.

• The Analysis of Behavior: A Program for Self-Instruction, Holland, J.G. & Skinner, B.F.
  

  This website has a free program for PCs that teaches basic behavioral concepts using an interactive format.

• The Behaviorism Tutorial, Moore, J.
  

  This website has a free tutorial that teaches behavioral concepts.

• A Glossary of Some Terms Used in the Objective Science of Behavior, Verplanck, B.
  

  This website provides a list of definitions for behavioral terms.

• The Behavior Analysis Archive at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  

  This website contains a variety of material related to behavior analysis.

• Website of the Oaxaca Psychologist Society (México).
  

  This website includes a variety of resources in Spanish including seminars, articles and slides.

Books:

• Ramnero, J., & Torneke, N. (March 2008). ABCs of human behavior: Behavioral principles for the practicing clinician. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger & Reno, NV: Context Press.
  

  It's a basic behavior analysis book for clinicians/ M.D.s/ psychiatrists/ etc. who haven't had training in BA. Goes all the way up to RFT.

• Miltenberger, R.G., (2008). Behavior modification: Principles and procedures (4th Ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.

• Woods, D. W., & Kanter, J. W. (Eds.). (2007). Understanding behavior disorders: A contemporary behavioral perspective. Reno, NV: Context Press.
  

  This volume presents a contemporary behavioral model of behavior disorders that incorporates the findings of current RFT and ACT research. Rich in possibilities for clinical work, this view of disordered behavior is an important milestone in clinical psychotherapy - an opportunity for behavioral clinicians to reintegrate their clinical practice with an experimental analysis of behavior.

• Cooper, J.O., Heron, T.E. & Heward, W.L. (2007). Applied Behavior Analysis (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall.
  

  This book is great resource to get you ready for the BCBA exam and to understand basic principals.

• Baum, W. M. (2004). Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution (2nd edition). Wiley-Blackwell.

• Pierce, W.D. & Cheney, C.D. (2003). Behavior Analysis and Learning, 3rd edition. Lawrence Erlbaum.
  

  The "focus on research" and "on the applied side" sections in various chapters add an excellent generalization of concepts into interesting areas. There is a section on Bandura and the Bobo doll, review of Sidman's comments on coercion, review of the intrinsic/extrinsic reinforcment debates, a creativity section, respondent conditioning and heroin overdose, medical conditioning, and much more.

• Baldwin, J.D. & Baldwin, J.I. (2000). Behavior Principles in Everyday Life (4th Edition). Prentice Hall.
  

  Really accessible account of behavioral principles. Great accompaniment to ABCs of Human Behavior.

• Chiesa, M. (1994). Radical Behaviorism: The philosophy and science. Cambridge Center.

• Leigland, S. (1992). Radical behaviorism: Willard Day on psychology and philosophy. Reno, NV: Context Press.
  

  Puts Skinner's work in context; links history/philosophy and the battles of minds as a background to RFT/ACT.

• Catania, C. (1992). Learning. Prentice Hall.

• Hayes, S. C. (Ed.). (1989/2004). Rule Governed behavior: Cognition, contingencies, and instructional control. New York: Plenum / reprinted in 2004 by Context Press.
  

  One of the first full-length presentations of the ACT / RFT model is in three chapters in this book on the topic. This book is now available in paperback from Context Press.

• Skinner, B.F. (1965). Science and Human Behavior. Free Press.