Behavior Science Perspectives on Culture and Community

Traci M. Cihon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas. Dr. Cihon received her MA in Psychology with a specialization in Behavior Analysis from the University of Nevada-Reno and completed her PhD in Special Education with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis at The Ohio State University. At UNT she teaches Verbal Behavior, Introduction to Behavior Principles, Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Behavior Analysis, and she coordinates the Teaching Science Laboratory that is responsible for the delivery of instruction for undergraduate Introduction to Behavior Analysis courses. Mark A. Mattaini, DSW, ACSW, holds an emeritus appointment at Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he was previously director of the doctoral program. He has developed, implemented, and researched behavioral strategies for individual, family, organizational, community and policy level interventions in the US, Canada, and Latin America, increasingly emphasizing advocacy, accompaniment, and activism in recent years. Consistent with that emphasis, his recent scholarship has focused on nonviolent action supporting social justice, and behavioral systems science at the cultural level. He is a research affiliate of the UIC Center for Research on Violence, and has chaired 25 dissertations related to responses to social issues. Most of his Ph.D. graduates are engaged in research and practice with marginalized populations, including those victimized by—and perpetrating—violence, and in developing evidence-guided supports for young people experiencing homelessness and social exclusion. Dr. Mattaini is author or editor of 13 books, two of the most recent being Strategic Nonviolent Power: The Science of Satyagraha, and Leadership for Cultural Change: Managing Future Well-Being, as well as numerousother publications. Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Behavior and Social Issues, Dr. Mattaini has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals in behavior analysis and social work. ABAI Convention Program Board Coordinator from 2013-2017, he has also been a long-time member of the Board of Planners for Behaviorists for Social Responsibility, the oldest ABAI SIG.

• Section I: Perspectives on Cultural and Community Behavior Science.- Chapter 1. History and Progress in Cultural and Community Science.- Chapter 2: Culturo-Behavioral Systems Analysis: An Ecological Science.- Chapter 3: Contingencies, Metacontingencies, and Culturants.-  Chapter 4: Cultural Behavior Science and Complex Systems.- Chapter 5: Leadership in the Analysis of Cultural Systems.- Chapter 6: Ethics for Cultural Behavior Science and Practice.- Chapter 7: Laboratory Studies.- Chapter 8: Establishing a Research Lab for Cultural Science.- Section II: Scientific Applications to Culture & Community.- Chapter 9: Community Health.- Chapter 10: Sustainability.- Chapter 11: The Steady-State Economy of Ecological Economics.- Chapter 12: Integrating Institutional and Culturo-Behavioral Analysis in the Management of Common Pool Resources.- Chapter 13: Climate Change.- Chapter 14: Examples of Research and Clinical Practice Focused on Social Justice.- Chapter 15: Toward a 21st Century, Science-Based “Constructive Programme”: Violence and Nonviolence.- Chapter 16: A Behavior Science Account of the Emergence, Evolution, and Decline of Art Movements.- Chapter 17: Social Policy Analysis and Advocacy Anthony Biglan.- Chapter 18: Advocacy, Accompaniment, and Activism Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Planners.