University of Michigan, Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Behav Ther. 2011 Mar;42(1):3-8. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.08.003. Epub 2010 Nov 5.
In this paper, the authors present a brief personal account of the senior author's 30 years of exploration in behavioral gerontology. The main thesis of the paper is that behavioral methods and interventions have found a home both in mainstream gerontology and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There are three sections: (a) a personal vignette discussing the problems inherent in using operant terminology in a nonoperant world; (b) a discussion, with examples from NIH sources, of the Institutes' views on behavior change; and (c) using Burgio and Burgio (1986) as a reference point, the authors show evidence of progress and vitality of behavioral gerontology in 2011.
本文作者简要介绍了资深作者 30 年来在行为老年学方面的探索历程。本文的主要论点是，行为方法和干预措施在主流老年学和美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）中都找到了归宿。全文分为三个部分：（a）个人特写，讨论了在非操作性世界中使用操作性术语所固有的问题；（b）讨论了 NIH 对行为改变的看法，并提供了来自 NIH 资源的例子；（c）以 Burgio 和 Burgio（1986）为参考点，作者展示了 2011 年行为老年学的进展和活力的证据。
