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From: Gunars Neiders
Date: 02 Oct 2007
Time: 13:33:40 -0500
Remote Name: 67.183.183.115
Mr. Baev,......Thank you for bringing to awareness the complex question of internal versus external locus of control. What I have read in my psychology classes supports the contention that internal locus of control is an important issue: 1) Internal locus of control with respect of the person who stutters understanding that much of what is called stuttering is something that the client *does* and not something that just *happens* to him, and 2) the disturbed emotions that a client experiences may be triggered by outside events, but can ultimately be managed by the person who stutters.......I have three questions: a) What methods do you use to help the client to get more internal locus of control on both 1) and 2) above......b) Where can I get a better reference Bernard Weiner's work.... and c) can you define stable cause and unstable cause from the client's point of view?....Certainly some aspects of life are outside of the range of our control, such as genetical predisposition to stutter....others such as how we manage stuttering or modify it and how we feel about it are in our control.....Having focused on this topic what do you think?