The authors review psychology's historical, competing perspectives on human motivation
and propose a new comprehensive theory. The new theory is based on evolutionary …

Over the past two decades, mental retardation research converges on three general themes:
co-occurring mental retardation and psychopathology; families of offspring with mental …

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations which arises from beliefs that these
sensations have harmful somatic, social, or psychological consequences. Over the past …

Two instruments were developed to provide a comprehensive assessment of the strength of
a person's fundamental end goals and motivational sensitivities. One instrument was a self …

This paper seeks to integrate Michael's (1982, 1993) discussion of the concept of the
establishing operation (EO) with existing conceptual and empirical analyses of problem …

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is a construct that denotes an individual difference in fear of anxiety.
Most research into the AS construct has focused on its association with panic attacks, panic …

A practical treatment manual, specifically developed for use with offenders who have
intellectual disabilities, which will help clinicians to prepare and run therapeutic group …

Der vorliegende Band gibt einen umfassenden und mit vielen Fallbeispielen versehenen
Überblick zu den besonderen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Herausforderungen bei …

The behavior of 60 children with Down syndrome (cDS), aged 4 to 21 years, was assessed
by parent and teacher report using the Reiss psychopathology rating scale for dual …

Sensitivity theory attempts to account for the variability often observed in challenging
behavior by recourse to the “aberrant motivation” of people with intellectual and …