Self and Perspective Taking

Stewart, Ian, McHugh, Louise

• Publisher: Context Press
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781608826896

Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior, it's difficult for psychologists and researchers to determine if intervention has been effective.

From a modern contextual behavioral point of view, the self develops in tandem with the ability to take perspective on one's own and other people's behavior. This collection of articles by Steven Hayes, Kelly Wilson, Louise McHugh, Ian Stewart, and other leading researchers begins with a complete history of psychological approaches to understanding the self before presenting contemporary accounts that examine the self and perspective taking from behavioral, developmental, and cognitive perspectives. The articles in The Self and Perspective Taking also explore the role of the self as it relates to acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and mindfulness processes. Featuring work from world-renowned psychologists, this resource will help clinicians augment self-understanding in clients, especially those with autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, and impaired perspective-taking abilities.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Approaches to the Self
• Self in Behavior Analysis
• A Contemporary Functional Analytic Account of Perspective Taking
• Precursors to Perspective Taking
• Theory of Mind
• How the Self Relates to Others When Perspective Taking Is Impaired
• The Role of Self in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• The Self as the Context for Rule-Governed Behavior
• The Self in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• The Self and Mindfulness
• A Naturalistic Approach to Transcendence: Deictic Framing, Spirituality, and Prosociality
• References