ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter attention was drawn to techniques that exert influence through specific alterations to the client’s environment, such as changing the contingencies which surround him or her-producing new cues and new consequences which affect behaviour. Now we turn to a set of approaches which focus on the nature of the responses produced within a given set of contingencies, rather than to the stimuli themselves. These response control techniques (Bandura 1969) are directed towards the production, by direct teaching, of new and more adaptive motor, verbal, emotional and cognitive responses. In other words, they seek to change what a person does, feels and thinks in response to the environment within which problems arise.
