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1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; DEDICATION; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; READERS' COMMENTS; 1 GETTING STARTED; Objective; Objective One: A Framework for Development; Objectives Two and Three: Identifying and Enhancing Conditions which Promote Development; Looking Ahead; Part I: Answering the Question, "What is Development?"; Parts II and III: Answering the Question, "What Can the Environment and the Person Contribute to Development?"; Sources of Learning; Proactivity vs. Reactivity; Proactive Perspective; Reactive Perspective |
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Proactivity: An Essential Survival SkillStriving in Service ... Service in Striving; PART I WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?; 2 GROWTH VS. CHANGE; Growth Experiences; Visualizing Growth; Examples of Growth Experiences; Simple Change Experiences; Visualizing Simple Change; Examples of Simple Change Experiences; Growth vs. Simple Change; 3 HEAPS AND WHOLES; Perspectives; Systems Perspective; Systems as Ordered Wholes; Potential Applications; Boundaries; Open and Closed Systems; Relationships with the Environment; Basic Orientations of Systems; Systemic Adjustments: Maintenance |
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Systemic Adjustments: TransformationSystemic Adjustments: Simple Change vs. Growth; Hierarchies of Interrelated Systems; Utility of the Hierarchy Concept; 4 PEOPLE AS CONTENT AND PROCESS; Mind/Body System; Formal Properties of the Mind; Our Mental Forms: Our Realities; Beliefs; Attitudes; Values; Functional Properties of the Mind; Contrasting the Mind's Formal and Functional Propertie; Interrelationship of Formal and Functional Properties; The Mind; The Body; Mind and Body; 5 A DEFINITION OF DEVELOPMENT; Recalling the Experience of Growth; Abstracting a Definition of Growth; Content Example |
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Expanding Women's RolesApplication of the Definition; Increasing Complexity; Increasing Flexibility; Increasing Stability; Ripple Effects; Process Example; Learning; Application of the Definition; Usefulness of the Definition; Fits Any Scale; Fits Any Aspect; Explains the Past; Plans the Future; Enhances the Present; 6 DEVELOPMENTAL PHASES; Transformation Themes; Resistance; Grief; Courage; Transformation Patterns; Pattern 1: Between Transformations; Pattern 2: Within Transformations; Usefulness of Knowing Transformation Patterns; PART II WHAT CAN THE ENVIRONMENT CONTRIBUTE?; 7 NOVELTY |
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An Example of Novelty at WorkWhy Novelty Work; Applying Novelty; Unplanned Novelty; Planned Novelty; 8 MINIMIZING THREAT; Why Threat Interferes; How to Minimize Threat; Step 1: Know Your Threat Patterns; Step 2: Select Novelty Which Is Not Too Threatening; Step 3: Prepare for Entrance into the Environment; Step 4: Concentrate on Proactivity While Immersed in the Novelty; 9 SUPPORTIVENESS OF THE LEARNING CYCLE; Learning's Role in Growth; Two Kinds of Learning; Reviewing the Learning Cycle; Enhancing Supportiveness of the Learning Cycle; Supportiveness; Concrete Experience |
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Reflective Observation |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317706496 |
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1317706498 |
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