Achieve your life goals with SELF-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR! With abundant strategies based on research, this psychology text guides you through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis and teaches you how to apply these skills in different settings. Case examples demonstrate how other students have successfully used the book's techniques, including one student who used shaping to gradually increase her ability to study, and another who learned to be more sure of himself on dates by consciously modeling a friend's confident behavior.

Self-Directed Behavior (PSY 103 Towards Self-Understanding)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Watson, David L.

Tharp, Roland G.

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Publishing

Psychology

Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.

More than just a self-help book, this Sixth Edition of Watson and Tharp's highly successful text continues to provide readers with step-by-step instructions for carrying out a program of self-modification. As readers experience behavior modification in the laboratory of their own lives, they learn sound scientific principles and coping skills for personal problem solving that will be with them for the rest of their lives. Although the authors deal with specific topic areas such as improving study habits, managing stress, or overcoming depression, the book does not narrowly focus on overcoming specific problems. Instead, it emphasizes behavior modification principles students can apply again and again...Watson and Tharp guide students through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis and provide them with concrete information on how to achieve personal goals. Case reports of their own students' self-change projects and others solicited from users of previous editions provide models for success. In addition, the authors include data from empirical field testing of the text indicating that students in courses using this book have achieved self-change goals at percentages varying from 66% to 84% (e.g., Clements &amp; Beidleman, 1981; Hamilton, 1980; Rakos &amp; Grodek, 1984).

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Help

Success

This successful self-help text has sold over 150,000 copies to date and offers a systematic, clearly-written introduction to the principles of learning. Providing scientifically-based instruction in the principles and practices of self-applied psychology, the authors help readers develop skills in self-analysis and personal problem solving that will be with them for the rest of their lives. Step-by-step instructions for carrying out a program of self-modification are included, as well as numerous examples and cases drawn from self-modification projects conducted by the authors students.

This effective self-help book presents a workable set of skills that readers can use for tackling their own self-modification programs, whether it be to improve self-confidence in dating, control overeating, implement and exercise program, or give up smoking. The authors' goal is to teach the basic skills necessary for readers to modify the behavior of their own choice, (66%-84% of the students employing these methods have achieved their self-change goals according to published studies in the literature). Once students have applied the principles to a behavior, they'll find it easier to use the skills in different settings.

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Special Three Volume Set: Textbook, Study Guide and Instructor's Manual.

Social Psychology: Science and Application

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Scott, Foresman Co.

Self-directed behavior: Self-modification for personal adjustment [hardcover] Watson, David L [Jan 01, 1981]

Self-directed behavior: Self-modification for personal adjustment

Personal Transformation

Accountable Discipleship: Handbook for Covenant Discipleship Groups in the Congregation

Discipleship Resources

Forming Christian Disciples: The Role of Covenant Discipleship and Class Leaders in the Congregation [Dec 01, 1991] Watson,

Forming Christian Disciples: The Role of Covenant Discipleship and Class Leaders in the Congregation

Religion & Spirituality

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Self-Directed Behavior (PSY 103 Towards Self-Understanding)

Psychology

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Social Psychology: Science and Application

Self-directed behavior: Self-modification for personal adjustment

Accountable Discipleship: Handbook for Covenant Discipleship Groups in the Congregation

Forming Christian Disciples: The Role of Covenant Discipleship and Class Leaders in the Congregation