33 Shoulds

This technique is an adaptation of the material in Chapter 7 in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning. Technique #33 Shoulds ‘Shoulds’ are a limited thinking pattern or cognitive error which are defined in...

32 The Pathological Critic

This technique is an adaption of the material in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew Mckay & Patrick Fanning. INTRODUCTION Definition The pathological critic is a term coined by psychologist Eugene Sagan to describe the negative...

31 Cross Mapping Submodalities

INTRODUCTION NeuroLinguistic Programming, introduced by Richard Bandler, an information specialist, and John Grinder, a linguist, starts with the premise that all subjective experience is ultimately reducible to what is called ‘sensory data’ plus language. When a...

30 Anchoring

INTRODUCTION Anchors developed as a product of Pavlov’s concept of stimulus response. Anchors define the triggers for states and behavior. You can learn how to establish triggers for selected responses that are desired both in yourself and others. In clinical...

18 Executive Dysfunction

INTRODUCTION Parents and teachers are often baffled when students, including those who are intellectually gifted, teeter on the brink of school failure. Recently researchers may have solved part of this challenging puzzle by identifying deficits in critical cognitive...