8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control or ABCs of Human Behavior

8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control: How to Improve Your Blood Glucose and Stay Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Laura Hieronymus

The only week-by-week guide to managing diabetes and glucose control

8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control is the diabetes management plan helps you manage your diabetes. It’s the plan for when you don’t have a plan.The week-by-week approach of this book shows you how to put together a health care team, manage medications, understand and implement the basics of meal planning, improve blood glucose self-monitoring, start an exercise program, and more.

Other books are encyclopedias about diabetes, but 8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control is structured approach to improving blood glucose and to managing diabetes better. Easy-to-read instructions and simple weekly goals help get you where you need to be—in as little as eight weeks!

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ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician

Author: Jonas Ramnero

When cognitive behavior therapy emerged in 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behavior principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists. But as the new "third-wave" behavior therapies begin to address weaknesses in the traditional cognitive behavioral models-principally the modest effectiveness of thought stopping and cognitive restructuring techniques-basic behavior principles are once again attracting the interest of front-line clinicians. Many of today's clinicians, though, received their training during the years in which classical behaviorism was not a major part of clinical education. In order to make the best use of the new contextual behaviorism, they need to revisit basic behavioral principles from a practical angle. This book addresses this need.

The ABCs of Human Behavior offers practicing clinicians a pithy and practical introduction to the basics of modern behavioral psychology. The book focuses both on the classical principles of learning as well as more recent developments that explain language and cognition in behavioral and contextual terms. These principles are not just discussed in the abstract-rather the book shows how the principles of learning apply in the clinical context. Practical and easy to read, the book walks clinicians through both common sense and clinical examples that help them learn to use behavioral principles to observe, explain, and influence behavior in a therapeutic setting.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     v
Our Thanks     vii
Introduction
Building on Behaviorism: Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies, Behavioral Psychotherapy, and Functional Contextualism     1
Describing Behavior
Topographical Aspects of Behavior     15
Observing Behavior: When, Where, and How Much?     31
Knowing Your ABCs     47
Explaining Behavior
Learning by Association: Respondent Conditioning     63
Learning by Consequences: Operant Conditioning     79
Operant Conditioning: Stimulus Control     99
Learning by Relational Framing: Language and Cognition     109
Applying Your ABCs     127
Changing Behavior
Functional Knowledge     145
Dialogue Toward Change     151
Principles and Practices     167
Principles of Treatment: One     171
Principles of Treatment: Two     185
Afterword     199
Suggested Reading     201
References     203
Index     209