Cognitive Counseling and Persons with Special Needs: Adapting Behavioral Approaches to the Social Context

Far too often behavioral principles--sound enough in themselves--are applied without taking individual needs and tastes into account. Such programs either fail to change the behavior or they draw counselor and patient--teacher and student--parent and child into deeper conflict. Cognitive Counseling and Persons with Special Needs describes the effective and humane use of behavioral methods to teach social and cognitive skills to the severely and profoundly mentally retarded. This introduction and guidebook outlines general principles and offers many case studies to illustrate the concepts under discussion.Herbert Lovett is the author of 'Cognitive Counseling and Persons with Special Needs: Adapting Behavioral Approaches to the Social Context', published 1985 under ISBN 9780275916510 and ISBN 0275916510.