ABSTRACT
Theoretical frameworks can guide the identification, selection, and implementation of intervention strategies. K. S. Calderon and J. W. Varnes recommend middle-range theorizing within the social learning theoretical tradition and specify some of the common mediating variables related to acquiring new behavior patterns. A theory-informed intervention is chosen from the range of possible theoretical sources following a comprehensive information collecting, organizing, and interpreting process. Practitioners turn to the theoretical frameworks and practice theories that they have learned during their professional socialization and select established theory-based intervention strategies from these resources. In intervention mapping, using the theory as a foundation for intervention, the cartographer identifies the key determinants (personal, interactional, environmental causes) of the target problem, and the theoretical conceptualization of the determinants that need to be changed. Model profiling is the characterizing and imitating of exemplary theorists with reference to their contributions to helping work especially to assessment and intervention processes.
