CPSY 400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mary Cover Jones, Marsha M. Linehan, Albert Bandura
22 May 2019
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Chapter 8: behavioral, cognitive, systematic, brief, and crisis theories of counseling. Behavioral counseling: approach of choice for clients with problems such as eating disorders, substance abuse, psychosexual dysfunction, anxiety, stress, assertiveness, parenting and social interaction. Especially popular in institutional settings, such as mental hospitals or sheltered workshops. John b. watson: mary cover jones, albert bandura. John krumboltz: niel jacobson, steven hayes, marsha linehan. Concentration on behavioral processes - that is, processes closely associated with overt behavior. Assumption that all behavior - adaptive and maladaptive - is learned. Rejection of the idea that human personality is composed of traits. Social-cognitive form of learning - people gain new knowledge and behavior by observing people and events without engaging in the behavior themselves and without any direct consequences to themselves. May take several roles, depending on his or her behavioral orientation and the client"s goals. Generally, a behaviorally based counselor is active in counseling sessions.
