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Title

The Common Sense of Counseling Psychology: Introducing

Authors

Lisa M. McAndrew, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow
Jessica L. Martin
Myrna L. Friedlander
Katherine Shaffer
Jessica Y. Breland
Sarah Slotkin
Howard Leventhal

Author ORCID Identifier

Lisa M. McAndrew: 0000-0002-1350-8773

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

DOI

10.1080/09515070.2017.1336076

Abstract

The goal of therapy is typically to improve clients’ self-management of their problems, not only during the course of therapy but also after therapy ends. Although it seems obvious that therapists are interested in improving client’s self-management, the psychotherapy literature has little to say on the topic. This article introduces Leventhal’s Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation, a theoretical model of the self-management of health, and applies the model to the therapeutic process. The Common-Sense Model proposes that people develop illness representations of health threats and these illness representations guide self-management. The model has primarily been used to understand how people self-manage physical health problems, we propose it may also be useful to understand self-management of mental health problems. The Common-Sense Model’s strengths-based perspective is a natural fit for the work of counseling psychologists. In particular, the model has important practical implicationsfor addressing how clients understand mental health problems over the course of treatment and self-manage these problems during and after treatment.

Comments

Publisher Acknowledgment:

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Counselling Psychology Quarterly on 08/11/2017. The version of record can be found here: Lisa M. McAndrew, Jessica L. Martin, Myrna L. Friedlander, Katharine Shaffer, Jessica Y. Breland, Sarah Slotkin & Howard Leventhal (2018) The common sense of counseling psychology: introducing the Common-Sense Model of self-regulation, Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 31:4, 497-512, DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2017.1336076

Recommended Citation

McAndrew, Lisa M.; Martin, Jessica L.; Friedlander, Myrna L.; Shaffer, Katherine; Breland, Jessica Y.; Slotkin, Sarah; and Leventhal, Howard, "The Common Sense of Counseling Psychology: Introducing" (2017). Educational & Counseling Psychology Faculty Scholarship. 16.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/edpsych_fac_scholar/16