Nonlinear Contingency Analysis is a guide to treating clinically complex behaviour problems such as delusions and hallucinations. It’s also a framework for treating behaviour problems, one that explores solutions based on the creation of new or alternative consequential contingencies rather than the elimination or deceleration of old or problematic thoughts, feelings, or behaviours. Chapters present strategies, analytical tools, and interventions that clinicians can use in session to think about clients’ problems using decision theory, experimental analysis of behaviour, and clinical research and practice.
Key Features
- Treats clinically complex behaviour problems.
- Framework for creating new consequential contingencies.
- Strategies and analytical tools for clinicians.
- Utilises decision theory and experimental analysis of behaviour.
Additional Information
By treating thoughts and emotions not as causes of behaviour but as indicators of the environmental conditions that are responsible for them, patients can use that knowledge to make changes that not only result in changes in behaviour, but in the thoughts and feelings themselves.
