How and why people change foundations of psychological therapy
Human beings change constantly; we are in an endless state of flux as we grow, mature, learn, and adapt to a myriad of physical, environmental, social, educational, and cultural influences. Change can be thought of as planful when it is motivated by the desire to be and feel different, such as the c...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
[2013]
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798214206719 |
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.
