The socio-cognitive theory of personality and its clinical applications

Personality is a cognitive-affective processing system, which, according to the socio-cognitive theory, creates four dimensions. They are reflected in skills, beliefs, standards and goals of individual, which consistent patterns behaviour.
 Self-efficacy judgments self-patterns determine choice persistence achieving them. On other hand, emotions preceding accompanying achievement affect coping with stress problems.
 The review clinical therapeutic applications this theory included inoculation training, REBT rational emotive therapy, Beck's cognitive depression schema therapy modelling methods. great advantage possibility verifying its theoretical assumptions confirming their huge amount research.
 Besides, it has practical application as many types cognitive-behavioural therapies have been developed on basis.