This time, faced with a greater amount of data, Rogers was able to accept the findings and to appreciate their significance. If internal attitudes toward the self were more important in predicting behavior than the external factors that had been thought to influence children, then it followed that counselors and social workers had been emphasizing the wrong things in their efforts to alter delinquent behavior. They had focused changing the external factors by removing children from their homes and placing them in foster homes or in reform schools, instead of to modify the children's self-insights.