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Nye, L. Sherry – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1973
This article explores three primary steps involved in helping clients to control their own behavior change: self-observation, self-monitoring, and self-regulation atrategies. Self-regulation provides an affirmative answer to the question: Is the client a counselor?'' by promoting client responsibility and independence in the counseling process.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counselor Role, Individual Development, Self Actualization
Lynn, David B. – 1976
The author reports an account of the method of self-therapy that he haltingly evolved over the years when faced with sensory disabilities. It presents a personal account of the tortuous routes in the evolution of this method and his confrontation with religion, work, self, middle age, death, others, marriage, and image of old age. The self-therapy…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Autobiographies, Disabilities, Individual Development
Mahoney, Michael J.; Thoresen, Carl E. – 1972
People's incessant struggles to exercise self-control have been hindered by their misconceptions about its nature. Self-control is viewed here as a complex behavior--i.e., as a sequence of specific acts influenced by conditions both internal and external to the person. A person can exercise self-control when he has learned how to manage these…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Environmental Standards, Individual Development
Brown, Steven D. – 1976
The purpose of this manual is to provide clients of community mental health facilities with techniques and skills to bring about changes in their own behavior and that of others in their environment. The manual has been used for two years as a textbook for a program of self-control skills training offered in San Mateo County, California, community…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Community Services, Guides, Individual Development
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Wishnoff, Robert – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1977
The focus on treatment for the dysfunctional couple only has excluded a sizable population of troubled individuals from receiving service. If the self-management principles developed from the cognitive-behavioral theories are utilized, a new treatment approach can be realized. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Individual Development