Counselors must select strategies that maximize the probability of helping clients achieve personal goals. These stratefies may focus on changing how clients think, feel, or act (T-F-A). Effective counselors need to systematically use varying combinations of T-F-A strategies that will best facilitate changes in clients' behavior. (Author)

Internal-External Locus of Control refers to the extent to which persons perceive contingency relationships between their actions and subsequent outcomes. Those who believe they have some control over payoffs in their lives are called "Internals.""Externals," on the other hand, believe consequences are directed by agents outside of themselves.…

A complete, readily applicable guide for schoolbased professionals, this book presents an empirically supported group intervention for 8- to 12-year-olds with anger and aggression problems. The Anger Coping Program has been demonstrated effective in reducing teacher- and parent-directed aggression and enhancing students classroom behavior, social…