Change : models and processes / by Shawn Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Shawn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Change (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Springfield : Charles C Thomas, publisher, Limited, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is intended to assist individuals in dealing with change occurring externally to the person, as well as change that the individual attempts to bring about in themselves. The approaches taken attempt to organize the concepts of change within a broad framework, a continuum (or gradient) which will enable the person to see changes in life as existing on a spectrum from those change phenomena which are external to the individual (e.g., economic or environmental events) to those within the person (e.g., stopping smoking or changing one's behavior). Within an overarching framework of gener

Contents:

CHANGE; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 THE BASIC MODELS; Chapter 2 GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY; Chapter 3 THE NORMAL OR BELL-SHAPED CURVE; Chapter 4 RECURRENT PATTERNS; Chapter 5 GRADIENTS AND NON-GRADIENTS; Chapter 6 HIERARCHIES AND INVERTED HIERARCHIES; Chapter 7 CHAINS AND CHAINING; Chapter 8 LEVELS OF FUNCTIONING; Chapter 9 ATTACHMENT THEORY AND INTERNAL WORKING MODELS; Chapter 10 THE CONCEPT OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE; Chapter 11 THE TRANSTHEORETICAL OR STAGES OF CHANGE MODEL; Chapter 12 ENDNOTE; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-398-08841-1

OCLC:

817896572