Technical Advantages
The client participates in defining the intervention objectives and articulating personal goals. The motivation comes directly from the client's conscious effort to attain such goals. Resistance, which usually arises out of the perceived discrepancy between the trainer's objectives and those of the client, is minimized.
- Easy measurement of outcome for practice, service evaluation and research purposes.
- Draws on the extensive body of empirical research associated with the development of social cognitive theory and with service programs utilizing social skills learning and training procedures.
- Uses a well-structured method with very a systematic procedure; this makes learning and mastery by practitioners relatively easy.
- Lends itself readily to time-limited interventions, and is particularly suited to group intervention programs. These features enhance cost-effectiveness.