The common sense of counseling psychology: introducing the Common-Sense Model of self-regulation
The common sense of counseling psychology: introducing the Common-Sense Model of self-regulation
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DOI:
10.1080/09515070.2017.1336076
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发表时间:
2018-01-01
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3
通讯作者:
Leventhal, Howard
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作者:
McAndrew, Lisa M.;Martin, Jessica L.;Leventhal, Howard
The goal of therapy is typically to improve clients' self-management of their problems, not only during the course of therapy but also after therapy ends. Although it seems obvious that therapists are interested in improving clients' self-management, the psychotherapy literature has little to say on the topic. This article introduces Leventhal's Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation, a theoretical model of the self-management of health, and applies the model to the therapeutic process. The Common-Sense Model proposes that people develop illness representations of health threats and these illness representations guide self-management. The model has primarily been used to understand how people self-manage physical health problems, we suggest it may also be useful to understand self-management of mental health problems. The Common-Sense Model's strengths-based perspective is a natural fit for the work of counseling psychologists. The model has important practical implications for addressing how clients understand mental health problems over the course of treatment and self-manage these problems during and after treatment.