How and why people change : foundations of psychological therapy /

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This resource revists many of the fundamental principles of behaviour change in order to deconstruct what it is we try to achieve in psychological therapies. All of the conditions that impact people when seeking therapy are brought together in one cohesive framework: assumptions of learning, motivat...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evans, Ian M., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Behavior therapy.
Behavior Therapy
Thérapie de comportement.
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Behavior therapy
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene: why we need a theory for change
  • What is therapeutic change?
  • Motivation to change
  • Individual differences in ability to change: personality and context
  • Conditioning: changing the meaning and value of events
  • Contingencies: therapy is learning and unlearning
  • Response relationships: the dynamics of behavioral regulation
  • Cognition: changing thoughts and fantasies
  • Self-influence
  • Social mediators and the therapeutic relationship
  • Culture as behavior change
  • Conclusions: how and why people can change and be changed.

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