New Ideas in Therapy: Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach

by Dennis Delprato, Douglas Ruben

Overview

According to the editors of New Ideas in Therapy, cognitive behaviorist theory is increasingly hampered by intrinsic theoretical limitations. A promising alternative and the subject of this book is interbehaviorism—a theory introduced by the late J.R. Kantor that looks at clinical events in terms of multiple causes and relationships operating within a integrated field or system. Written by a distinguished group of researchers and practitioners who have expanded upon Kantor's work, this study presents a new account of therapy that demonstrates, for the first time, how his field theory can be applied in modern clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313248450
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/16/1987
Series:	International Contributions in Psychology , #10
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

DOUGLAS RUBEN is a therapist and psychologist with a private clinic and a consultant for a rehabilitation psychology group.

DENNIS J. DELPRATO is Professor of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Section I: Foundations of the New Therapy
What Qualifies Interbehavioral Psychology as an Approach to Treatment? by J.R.Kantor
Theory versus Practice by N.H. Pronko
From the Classroom to the Field and Back by Paul R. Fuller
Section II: Methods
The Interbehavioral Approach to Psychopathology by Robert W. Lundin
Interbehavioral Approach to Clinical Child Psychology: Toward an Understanding of Troubled Families by Robert G. Wahler and Della M. Hann
Toward an Interbehavioral Medicine by F. Dudley McGlynn, Edwin W. Cook, III, and Paul E. Greenbaum
Q-Methodology: Interbehavioral and Quantum Theoretical Connections in Clinical Psychology by William Stephenson
Assumptions about Teaching Assertiveness: Training the Person or Behavior? by Douglas H. Ruben and Marilyn J. Ruben
Multidisciplinary Approach to Obesity and Risk Factor Management by Dallas W. Stevenson and Michael Hemingway
Interbehavioral Perspectives on Legal Deviance: Some Considerations of Context by Edward K. Morris, Lisa M. Johnson, Steven E. Larson, Lynda K. Powell, James T. Todd, and Jane B. Atwater
An Interbehavioral Perspective on Parent Training for Families of Developmentally Delayed Children by Lynne A. Daurelle, Ann P. Kaiser, and James C. Fox
Community-Based Psychological Services for Developmentally Retarded Persons by Mary Ann Scafasci
Public Policy Research from a Field-Theory Perspective by Donna M. Cone
Value of "New Ideas" by Douglas H. Ruben and Dennis J. Delprato
General Subject Index