The clinical potential of modifying what clients say to themselves.

The Effects of a Self‐instructional Package on Overactive Preschool Boys

“…One technique for training verbally mediated self-control is that of cognitive self-instruction (Meichenbaum and Cameron, 1974). This procedure consists of fading a set of prompts and instructions from an overt (spoken aloud), external (verbalized by a model) condition to a covert, self-produced target response.…”

A Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cognitive Reframes of Dysfunctional Career Thoughts Technical Report 36 - Revised

“…Next, negative career thoughts are challenged by stimulus reframing statements which model effective thinking about career decision making for the client as recommended by Meichenbaum and Cameron (Meichenbaum, 1972;Meichenbaum & Cameron, 1974). Clients then alter their negative statements in the workbook to be more functional and they are encouraged to plan and take action based on these new statements.…”

Behavioral Interventions and Compliance to Treatment Regimes

“…Typically, when modeling is used as a behavioral strategy, the process involves the following (8 1 Modeling is a particularly important behavioral strategy in that its overt and covert use is often an element of other behavioral procedures such as reinforcement, behavior contracting, self-management, assertiveness train ing, and cognitive restructuring. Additionally, modeling-reinforcement pro cedures have been successfully used and researched in the public health setting for a variety of concerns, including peer modeling for hypertensive management (5), family modeling for cholesterol (57), spouse modeling for obesity (58,59), visual and written models fo r compliance to on-the-job safety behaviors (63), and modeling fo r the development of stress-coping skills (85).…”

“…Many psychologists have attempted to vary and implement the rational emotive therapy advocated by Ellis (126) within a systematic learning framework (85,127,128). Most of these variations fo cused on increasing the development of a cognitive restructuring skill, which could then be used as a self-help coping tool for future problem situations.…”

“…In the public health setting, cognitive restructuring has been used for smoking cessation (45), weight control (58,59), and stress management (85,125,136). Other investigators have used cognitive techniques for a variety of problems such as didactic coercion for alcohol abuse (52), cognitive dissonance for hypertension (54), written instruction for dietary management (56), rational-emotive therapy for drug abuse (48), creative problem solving for alcoholism (50), thought stopping for the treatment of adolescent obesity (60), and cognitive proce dures for pain management (137).…”