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25 Change Management
Principle: The management of people, whether staff or clients, is substantially the same.
25 Measuring Social Competence Through Sociometry
Personal support systems are a well-known concern for people suffering from what is commonly known as ‘chronic mental illness’. It has been reported that emotional healthy individuals live in functional psychosocial kinship systems of between twenty and twenty-five persons with whom they are mutually interdependent for affective and instrumental support. Later study found that people with thought disorders had networks averaging thirteen in size. If social competence is a cause, not an effect – we will want to address the issue at an early stage in child development. This article discusses one way to accomplish that goal.
25 Pure Speculation
At long last science has figured out that the brain is not generally hardwired and unlike a computer, it rewires itself constantly. What you think matters for thinking (cognition) is the mechanism for programming and language and imagery are the primary, although...
25 Testing Assumptions
The enclosed techniques and procedures were developed with materials from the book “Change Your Mind, Change Your Life” [previously published as “Prisoners of Belief”] written by Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning and published by MJF books, New York, 1991. Clinical...
26 Outcome Oriented Management
A human service system is an organized community of interest; a group of people with similar concerns that cause similar patterns of behavior. The manager’s responsibility is to “steer” the system, to provide a common direction towards a specific goal where it does not exist or to exploit and support the common direction where it does.
26 Perspective
A Brief History of Psychological Disorders: We presumably study history to learn from our past mistakes. For as long as there have been people living in groups, there also have been some individuals who behaved in disturbing and atypical ways. As such, people have...
26 The Calm Technique
The enclosed techniques and procedures were developed with materials from a book titled The Calm Technique by Paul Wilson. The book was published by Barnes & Noble in 1999 after an earlier edition published in 1985. We have obviously adapted the material toward...
26 The Management of Stress
Stress as cause and effect is examined in light of the interpretation of pressure as the key to serenity.
27 Managing Care
This paper is concerned with changing the way we do business in human services. While it is somewhat outdated, it still provides prospective on the problems of delivering appropriate human services. The goal is to develop a single system of supports for children and their families and to do so outside the present ‘box’. – WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT WORKING.