How to Use Systematic Attention and Approval (How to Manage Behavior Series)

Social reinforcement is a powerful and effective motivational tool, and this manual presents a program designed to help therapists and trainers become more skillful in using it. It will help readers learn to understand and use their attention and approval more effectively to bring about desirable behavior in others. The techniques presented in this manual are based on years of fundamental and functional research conducted in real-life settings by parents, teachers, employers, and others whose chief interests were in results rather than theory. This book is thus a device to provide information and to give exercises to help you use your attention and approval effectively. Contents: Preface to Series Introduction How to Be a Better Motivator What Is Systematic Attention and Approval? Systematic Attention Exercises Basic Steps Where to From Here? Putting It All Together Raw Data Sheet References