Presents a set of skills to use in developing self-modification programs for improving confidence, losing weight, exercising, or quitting alcohol and drugs. Includes chapter summaries, tips, and an on-going self-direction project, with some workbook-style pages. This seventh edition offers a sample of a completed self-modification program, and contributions on readiness for change, behavior economics, and relapse prevention. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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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.
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