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PHILIP H. FRIEDMAN
Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
3. Secondary appraisal, a cognitive process, determining how harmful the agent is and
evaluating whether an individual h a the resources to counter the harmful agent; and the
important coping process, a behavioral action tendency.
4. Situational constraints to the behavioral action tendency.
5. Internalized values fostering or inhibiting the behavioral action tendency from
overt expression.
6. The physiological and motoric consequences to the individual of the first five
factors.
TABLE 1
APPROACH TO BEHAVIORTHERAPY
A COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL
In general, the therapist openly and directly intervenes to change maladaptive cognitions,
behavioral action tendencies, affects, and physiological and motoric responses of the indi-
vidual. The change in any one of these systems has feedback, positive or negative, upon
one or more of the other systems and usually has direct consequences for an individual's
interpersonal relationships.
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