ABSTRACT
Well, possibly, except that yesterday’s experiences and their consequent predispositions are inside us. But, more practically for now, Chapter 4 identified the use of cognitive-behavioural methods as one of three key developments in the upturn of our fortunes over the past two decades regarding research into the effectiveness of social work. This chapter is a guide to these approaches which follows the ‘logical fit’ point made between pp. 302 and 306. Thus it presents a review of the research on how we acquire patterns of behaviour (whether pro-or antisocial or self-defeating) in the first place, and on what experiences are known to affect these patterns. We then discuss how social workers can make routine use of these techniques (see Roth and Pilling, 2008).
