James M. Yokley Ph.d.

How Did I Get This Problem?: Social Responsibility Therapy: Understanding Harmful Behavior Workbook 1 James M. Yokley Ph.d.

This Social Responsibility Therapy workbook was designed to help individuals who are struggling with harmful behaviors such as problem eating, drinking, drugs and physical or sexual aggression. The focus is on understanding, "How did I get this problem?" and beginning to do something about it.

"No one plans a problem." No one got up one morning and said, "It's raining outside, I think I'll stay inside and start developing a harmful behavior pattern." In reality, the problem developed over time in three areas; behavior acquisition, behavior maintenance and behavior generalization. In other words, there were risk factors that got it started, a cycle that kept it going and an anatomy of factors that allowed it to spread to other life areas or bounce back and forth between problems. In Social Responsibility Therapy, this is referred to as "The Problem Development Triad" and is addressed in three harmful behavior workbooks.

This workbook focuses on "The Risk Factor Chain" that led to harmful behaviors. Since positive lifestyle change involves positive lifestyle actions, healthy behavior success skills are provided to help address the risk factors that led to unhealthy, harmful behavior.

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Note: The Social Responsibility Therapy focus on Understanding Harmful Behavior through "The Problem Development Triad" includes a three workbook series designed to help individuals with harmful behavior problems understand how they got that behavior, what kept it going and how it spread to other areas.

Workbook 1- "How did I get this problem?" focuses on understanding how harmful behavior was acquired through The Risk Factor Chain (Paperback: 978-0-9832449-0-5, Dec 2010, 114pp, www.socialsolutionspress.com)

Workbook 2- "Why do I keep doing this?" focuses on understanding how harmful behavior problems were maintained by The Stress-Relapse Cycle (Paperback: 978-0-9832449-1-2)

Workbook 3- "How did this problem spread?" focuses on understanding how harmful behavior problems were generalized to other areas with The Harmful Behavior Anatomy (Paperback: 978-0-9832449-2-9)

Social Responsibility Therapy is a Social Solutions Healthy Behavior Lifestyle Development Project. Further information on Social Responsibility is available online at...
www.srtonline.org
www.forensicare.org
and in...
Yokley, J. (2008). Social Responsibility Therapy for Adolescents & Young Adults: A Multicultural Treatment Manual for Harmful Behavior, New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

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