Behavioral Psychology

Reconnected Kids is a groundbreaking guide to help parents resolve their child's behavioral problems—without medication, strife, or drama. This empowering method shows parents how to first identify their own role in their child's behavior, and then how to guide the child to focus on goals, practice lifelong good habits, and stay motivated.

DBT Workbook for Adults is your guide to breaking free. Designed specifically for adults grappling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and the emotional intensity of BPD, this workbook offers a compassionate, easy-to-understand approach to using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Transform your experience from just surviving to truly thriving in only 8 weeks!

For even the fittest, healthiest, and most vibrant among us, the truth is there are inevitable challenges that come from growing older. Major life transitions such as retirement, the loss of family or a partner, changes in our bodies, and changing social roles in everyday life can lead to feelings of uncertainty, loss of control, and even anxiety and depression. But aging doesn't have to be a negative thing. You can carve out your own path. This book will show you how to live with more vitality and joy—at any age!

Striving for something can be a healthy and positive attribute; it's good to aim high. But sometimes whatever we do just isn't good enough; we want to be too perfect and start setting unrealistic goals. Such high levels of perfectionism, often driven by low self-esteem, can turn against success and develop into unhealthy obsession, triggering serious mental-health problems, such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders.

En este libro, te proporcionaremos todo lo que necesitas saber sobre la Terapia Cognitivo Conductual, así como las razones por las que se considera uno de los tratamientos más eficaces para ciertos trastornos emocionales. Repasaremos los aspectos básicos y esenciales que los principiantes deben comprender antes de comenzar sus tratamientos, así como los diferentes beneficios que uno puede obtener de ella. Se incluyen los diferentes temas que trata efectivamente, y la filosofía detrás de ello.

Do you have obsessive, negative, intrusive thoughts that keep you up at night and miserable during the day? Do these thoughts make you feel sad, angry, anxious, or ashamed? Whether you have a formal diagnosis such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or borderline personality disorder (BPD)—or simply struggle with unwanted thoughts and the emotions they cause—this workbook can help you find the relief you desperately seek.

Case Studies in Behavioral Forensic Analysis is a companion (technical, practitioner) audiobook to Dr. Ruben’s earlier book Behavioral Forensics: Using Applied Behavior Analysis in Psychological Court Evaluations (2020). It liberally expands the campaign to transform traditional forensic psychological evaluations into behaviorally (evidence-based) psychological evaluations. Basic (experimental) and applied research serve the foundation in elucidating the opaque splatter of criminal actions into transparently coherent and molecular units of behaviors.

Have you ever felt like sleeping is a better option compared to waking up and facing the day? These signs might actually indicate a serious underlying problem. We need to know how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact especially in the case of conditions such as depression, anger, anxiety, phobia, and panic. This book is designed to help children, teenagers, and young adults understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

If you suffer from depression you are far from alone. Depression is very common, affecting over 300 million people around the world. Written by Professor Paul Gilbert, internationally recognised for his work on depression, this highly acclaimed self-help book has been of benefit to thousands of people including sufferers, their friends and families and those working in the medical profession.

Are you struggling to guide the children in your life to become kind, responsible, respectful, and successful people? Do you want to avoid coercive methods and instead use effective, evidence-based, respectful guidance techniques? Responding effectively to a child's challenging behaviors is an art informed by science. Like artists need to learn techniques before creating masterpieces, parents, teachers, and therapists can develop their skills to help children thrive.

Do you feel that you’re lacking the necessary inner strength to persevere or take action? Do you have certain habits that you like to change, but your lack of inner strength prevents you from doing so? If your answer to both questions is yes, then you’re not alone. There are numerous people who have the same problem as you. Fortunately, your willingness to cultivate both willpower and self-discipline can significantly help you. Both self-discipline and willpower, along with your high level of confidence and motivation, are crucial in your attempt to attain success.

Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible. They stay in abusive relationships. People grow to accept authoritarianism and take foolish risks. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before. But what if we could find a way to see everything anew?

Unlock the Hidden Drivers of Human Behavior and Transform Interventions Why do people behave the way they do? More importantly—how can we create meaningful, lasting change? In Decoding Behavior, award-winning mental health expert Christian Brown introduces the A.I.M. Model (Action, Intention, Motivation)—a revolutionary, research-driven framework that goes beyond traditional interventions to uncover the real reasons behind challenging behaviors. This book provides a practical, evidence-based approach to understanding human actions, reshaping behavioral interventions, and achieving ...

Discover key Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles that will enable you to become a happier, more fulfilled, more effective, and more content person. This guide teaches simple clear techniques that will enable you to start living life to the fullest.

Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For some, the anxiety becomes severe and persistent. It is distressing for them and for everyone around them. In fact, health anxiety can be very successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)—the approach taken in this self-help guide. Using a structured step-by-step approach, the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognise what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it.

The Kindness Method is the key to breaking unwanted habits for good. By combining her own therapeutic style, personal experience and techniques learned from working in substance misuse, Shahroo Izadi shares simple steps that help strengthen your willpower like a muscle, so you can sustain motivation for the long haul.Shahroo shares her totally non-judgmental and flexible process for mapping and changing your habits, based on treating yourself with the compassion and understanding that would normally be reserved for others.

Whether you’re dealing with specific problems such as depression or anxiety or even just find yourself coming to a negative state regularly, then you will benefit from what this audiobook teaches you. This audiobook is made in a way to give you the fundamentals you need and take them on board in your everyday life. The goal is to kill negativity and any negative psychological conditions so you can start living a happier life that will be life-changing.

This Very Short Introduction gives an overview of what CBT is, where it came from, what it does, and when it can be used. It explores how one of the driving forces behind CBT's success and continued adaptation has been its basis in empiricism, and analyses how it must continue to evolve to meet future challenges. Freda McManus also discusses how the scale of mental health problems and relative costs of traditional therapy formats have prompted investigations into alternative formats of CBT that have the potential to reach broader audiences, globally.

What if I told you your ability to set goals is the secret to getting everything you always dreamed of? Or that your personal and professional life can be exactly how you decide? Wouldn’t you like to have the power to reach all your goals? The Power of Goals is a concise, practical guide that will help you to clearly define: What you “really” want in life, why you want it, and how you can get it. Achieving your aims is possible, and much easier than you think. Your aims are the basis and structure that dictate your success.

Whether it's rising out of bankruptcy, handling a divorce, being a parent, leading a work team, or building a business from scratch, the science of applied behavior analysis has five scientific laws of life and leadership that are proven by the authors will lead you to success.