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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How and why people change : foundations of psychological therapy by Ian M. Evans. ISBN 9780199917273. Published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
