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Conceptualizing Personality as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: A Framework for Models of Maladaptive Behavior Patterns and Change
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Shoda, Yuichi; Smith, Ronald E. – Behavior Therapy, 2004
This article outlines a conceptualization of personality as a cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) and explores its implications for understanding disorders and pursuing therapeutic change. The CAPS conception of personality was proposed in 1995 in order to resolve a long-standing paradox in personality and social psychology, namely, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Social Psychology
Empiricism, Mechanism, and the Practice of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
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Persons, Jacqueline B. – Behavior Therapy, 2005
The thesis of this article is that a case formulation-driven approach to clinical work that relies on a case formulation and a hypothesis-testing approach to each case facilitates the use, in clinical settings, of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) that were developed in research settings. The two touchstones of a case formulation-driven…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Psychology, Counseling Techniques, Cognitive Restructuring