Self Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Directions in the Study of Personal-change Endeavors by Clinical and Social Psychologists: An Introduction

   1. Directions in the Study of Personal-change Endeavors by Clinical and Social Psychologists: An Introduction

      • Yechiel Klar

      Pages 1-20

3. Initiating Changes: Perceptions and Intentions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Perceptions of Self-initated Change

      • Linda Silka

      Pages 23-42

   3. Perceptions of Changes in the Self: The Impact of Life Events and Large Group Awareness Training

      • Morton A. Lieberman

      Pages 43-61

   4. Opting to Change: Students’ Informal Self-change Endeavors

      • Yechiel Klar, Arie Nadler, Thomas E. Malloy

      Pages 63-83

4. Changing: Process Approaches to Initiation and Maintenance of Changes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. In Search of the Structure of Change

      • James O. Prochaska, Carlo C. DiClemente, John C. Norcross

      Pages 87-114

   3. Lineal and Recursive Perspectives on Change: Describing the Development and Amelioriation of Agoraphobia

      • George J. Allen, Barry G. Sheckley

      Pages 115-136

   4. Determinants of Relapse in Addictive Behaviors: A Social Learning Approach to Facilitating Maintenance

      • Mary E. Larimer, G. Alan Marlatt

      Pages 137-151

   5. Who Succeeds in Losing Weight?

      • Marian L. Fitzgibbon, Daniel S. Kirschenbaum

      Pages 153-175

5. Negotiating Changes: The Social Groundings of Personal Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. The Social Constitution of the Persistence of Personal Change: An Ecological Interpretation

      • Reuben M. Baron, Stephen J. Misovich

      Pages 179-195

   3. Psychotherapy as a Conversation for Change

      • Cynthia Rosengard, Jack M. Chinsky

      Pages 197-211

   4. Volitional Personal Change in an Interpersonal Perspective

      • Arie Nadler, Jeffrey D. Fisher

      Pages 213-230

   5. Social Comparison and Self Change

      • Thomas Ashby Wills

      Pages 231-252

   6. Structural Equation Modeling of Self-initiated Change

      • Thomas E. Malloy

      Pages 253-272

6. Back Matter

   Pages 273-285

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Self Change: Social Psychological and Clinical Perspectives examines cognitive and motivational factors affecting the intention to seek change, processes involved in the initiation and maintenance of change, the role of social networks as facilitators or inhibitors of change, and measurement and assessment of personal change. At any given moment millions of people are contemplating changing various aspects of themselves; a general theory on volitional change is sorely needed. This book, which is of interest to social psychologists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, to researchers and practitioners, is a significant contribution to a more thorough understanding of self change.

• Motivation
• Training
• assessment
• perception
• psychotherapy
• social learning

• Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Yechiel Klar, Arie Nadler

• Department of Psychology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

  Jeffrey D. Fisher, Jack M. Chinsky

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