How and why people change : : foundations of psychological therapy / / Ian M. Evans.

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford ;, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages)
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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.