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Our self-talk is the set of evaluating thoughts we give ourselves about facts and events that happen to us. Self-concept (or identity) development is a lifetime process. It begins during the early years and continues to change throughout our lifetime. During the early years, our sense of self is largely determined by the reactions of others. A long time ago, Cooley (1902) discussed this early labeling process as resulting in the ”looking-glass self”; that is, persons develop their self-concept (sense of who and what they are) in terms of how others relate to them.

For example, if a neighborhood identifies a young boy as being a “troublemaker,” a “delinquent,” the neighbors are apt to relate to the youth as if he were not to be trusted, may accuse him of delinquent acts, and will label his semidelinquent and aggressive behavior as being “delinquent.” This labeling process, the youth begins to realize, also results in a type of prestige and status, at least from his peers. In the absence of objective ways to gauge whether he is, in fact, a “delinquent,” the youth will rely on the subjective evaluations of others.

Thus, gradually, as the youth is related to as being a “delinquent,” he is apt to begin to perceive himself in that way and will begin to enact the delinquent role. The labeling process undoubtedly has a substantial influence in shaping behavior. Yet, it fails to explain why children may be treated essentially the same, and yet engage in very different behavior, as well as develop substantially different self-concepts.

We have all heard stories about two children raised essentially the same (in a ghetto or in an upper-class suburb) who develop vastly different lifestyles, with one becoming involved in a life of crime, while the other becomes a law-abiding, productive community leader. Why?

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p. cm. (SUNY series, studying the self) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-7914-1867-7 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-1868-5 (pbk. alk. paper) 1. Change (Psychology) 2. Self. 3. Self-help techniques. I. Brinthaupt, Thomas M., 1958 . II. Lipka, Richard P. III. Series. BF637.C4C43 1994 155.2’5dc20 93-10522 CIP < previous page cover-3 next page > If you like this book, buy it!

< previous page page_v next page > Page v CONTENTS Contributors vii Introduction Thomas M. Brinthaupt and Richard P. Lipka 1 Part 1 Philosophies of Changing the Self 19 Chapter 1 Changes in the Self from a Developmental/Psychosocial Perspective Don Hamachek 21 Chapter 2 Cluttered Terrain: The Schools’ Interest in the Self James A. Beane 69 Chapter 3 Changing the Delinquent Self Martin Gold 89 Chapter 4 Changing the Religious Self and the Problem of Rationality P. J.

Watson 109 Part 2 Techniques of Changing the Self 141 Chapter 5 Shrinking the Self Roy F. Baumeister and Joseph M. Boden 143 Chapter 6 Conceptualizing and Changing the Self from a Rational Therapy Perspective Charles Zastrow 175 < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi Chapter 7 The Transtheoretical Model of Change Diane Grimley, James O.

Prochaska, Wayne F. Velicer, Linelle M. Blais, and Carlo C. DiClemente 201 Chapter 8 Pathways to Internalization: When does Overt Behavior Change the Self- Concept? Dianne M. Tice 229 Part 3 Experiences of Changing the Self 251 Chapter 9 Self-change Experiences of Psychotherapists John C. Norcross and Darren C. Aboyoun 253 Chapter 10 Self and Self-loss in Mystical Experience Ralph W. Hood, Jr. 279 Chapter 11 Minority Identity and Self-Concept: The American Indian Experience John M. Dodd, J.

Ron Nelson, and Bonnie Henderson Hofland 307 Chapter 12 Disability and the Self S. Kay Toombs 337 Subject Index 359 Author Index 365 < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii CONTRIBUTORS Darren C. Aboyoun Department of Psychology University of Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania Roy F. Baumeister Department of Psychology Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio James A.

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