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02 Sociometry
Personal support systems are a well known concern for people suffering from what is commonly known as ‘chronic mental illness’. Healthy individuals live in functional psychosocial kinship systems of mutual independence of between twenty and twenty-five persons. People with thought disorders have networks averaging thirteen in size. If social competence is a cause, not an effect – we will need to begin to address the issue at an early stage in child development.
02 The Language of Change
The Language of Change – Paul Watzlawick, 1978 One can free children from warts by ‘purchasing’ them. In practice this is achieved by giving the child a coin for, and thus laying claim to, his wart. As a rule the child then asks - amused or bewildered - how he is...
03 Biological Theory Underpinning
A Biological Theory To Underpin Cognitive Behavior Management: There are fundamental laws about complex systems, but they are new kinds of laws. They are laws of structure and organization and scale, and they simply vanish when you focus on the individual constituents...
03 Changing Distressing Thoughts
The enclosed technique and procedures were developed with materials from a workbook of cognitive behavior techniques titled ‘Thoughts & Feelings’ and written by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis and Patrick Fanning. The workbook was published by New Harbinger...
03 Cognitive Constructionism
Educators, researchers and policymakers have been discussing constructivism and a constructivist approach to learning [and therefore teaching]. During the past few years, this orientation has become de rigueur in educational circles.
03 Cognitive Modeling
Cognitive modeling is one of the techniques based on cognitive behavior management, which involves the manipulation of antecedents (before response of the student) and consequences (after response of the student) to change both overt…
03 Learning Resilience
Paralysis of the will is a striking feature of depression, indicating the underlying hopelessness. Helplessness is the psychological state that frequently results when events are uncontrollable. An event is uncontrollable when we can’t do anything about it; when nothing we do matters. The two crucial concepts are voluntary response and response-outcome independence; these two concepts are intimately related.
03 Measuring Performance Outcomes
Human service managers today are intrigued by outcomes. It is a fad which is given a great deal of “lip service” but very little of anything else. We rationalize that the field is not far enough along to be able to define outcomes. Or we don’t have time, because of day-to-day crises. The real reason is often that we know we are not as effective as we would like to be, so we don’t want to be held accountable.
03 Organizational Models
In making the shift from traditional models of serving people with problems in living to a transitional model dedicated to the use of cognitive behavioral management, one is required to look at the full range of organizational elements which have been identified by Robert B. Waterman, Jr., Thomas J. Peters and Julian Phillips in a 1990 article called Structure Is Not Organization.