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Behavioral Community Psychology Strategies and Tactics for Teaching Community Skills to Children and Adolescents

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

Part of the book series: Advances in Clinical Child Psychology ((ACCP,volume 4))

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When behavior analysis emerged from the operant laboratories in the 1950s and 1960s, its initial applications quickly took root in the problems that traditional psychological approaches had found so resistant to change. These problems, consisting primarily of the behavior disorders of children in institutional wards, in classrooms, and in homes, continue to represent most of the applications of behavior analysis (Kazdin, 1975). Recently, however, behavior analysis has become more ambitious. Its leading edge (see “Behavioral Community Psychology,” Briscoe, Hoffman, & Bailey, 1975) has embraced a repertoire of behavior whose significance among children is universal. This repertoire encompasses health, safety, nutrition, ecology, literacy, interpersonal relationships, and other classes of behavior whose development is fundamental to the quality of life not only for every child but for the entire community. Indeed, it appears that behavior analysis has never before encountered a repertoire whose development has greater implications for the survival of a culture (Skinner, 1971).

Industries do not invest in large plants until they have tried a new process on a smaller scale. If we want to find out how people can live together without quarreling, can produce the goods they need without working too hard, can raise and educate their children more efficiently, let us start with units of manageable size before moving on to larger problems. (Skinner, 1978, pp. 59–60)

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  1. Institute for Social Research/CRUSK, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106, USA

    William H. Yeaton

  2. Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 62901, USA

    Brandon F. Greene

  3. Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, USA

    Jon S. Bailey

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Yeaton, W.H., Greene, B.F., Bailey, J.S. (1981). Behavioral Community Psychology Strategies and Tactics for Teaching Community Skills to Children and Adolescents. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9808-0_7

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