1. Research methods are used to evaluate the effectiveness of both the assessment
and treatment process.
2. People are not determined by environmental circumstances; they have the
capacity for choosing how they will respond to external events.
3. In therapy the client controls what behavior is to be changed, and the therapist
controls how behavior is changed.
4. A client’s problems are infl uenced primarily by present conditions.
5. Understanding the origins of personal problems, or insight into underlying
dynamics, is not essential for producing behavior change.
6. Clients tend to benefi t the most when they have a variety of ways to cope with
anxiety-arousing situations that they can continue to use once therapy has
ended.
7. Past history should be the focus of therapy only to the degree to which such
factors are actively and directly contributing to a client’s current diffi culties.
8. Therapy best focuses primarily on overt and specifi c behavior rather than on
a client’s feelings about a situation.
9. Any program of behavioral change should begin with a comprehensive assessment
of the individual.
10. A good working relationship between the client and the therapist is a necessary
but not suffi cient condition for behavior change to occur.
11. Clients are both the producer and the product of their environment.
12. The client and therapist collaboratively specify treatment goals in concrete,
measurable, and objective terms.
13. Some proper roles of the therapist include serving as teacher, consultant, facilitator,
coach, model, director, and problem solver.
14. The skilled behavior therapist conceptualizes problems behaviorally and
makes use of the client–therapist relationship in facilitating change.
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