Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Cybernetic Model of Human Change and Growth
Everyone who helps, be he a therapist, a teacher, a management consult ant or a social worker, uses some theory about how pe0p1e change. In some cases, most notably psychotherapy, this theory is quite explicit and highly articulated. Therapists consciously use their theory of personality change to choose their interventions with clients. In many other instances, the helpers' theory of Change is more implicit, often a series of strongly held beliefs that are poorly spelled out and not systematically related to one another. In either case there are, in most helping professions, continuing highly emotional battles about the correct approach to use in dealing with a client. In education the conflict between traditional and progressive approaches has continued for centuries. The parallel issue in child-rearing practice has been between advocates of strict discipline and advocates of permissiveness. Welfare debates often focus on the nature of human nature is man inherently lazy or does he have a drive for self - fulfillment and self respect. Consultants and therapists argue heatedly about the relative merits of directive versus non - directive intervention styles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
