Interpreting Residential Life

ISBN-13: 9781032582276 / Twarda / 2023 / 228 str.

James S. Atherton

Opis

First published in 1989 Interpreting Residential Life raises questions like – a) what makes residential establishments tick, and c) why is change so difficult to create and even more difficult to sustain? James Atherton provides a set of tools to enable residential workers to answer these questions in their own establishments.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements General Editor’s Foreword Introduction 1. Systems Thinking 2. Communication in the Residential Setting 3. The Residential Establishment as a Self-Regulating System 4. Hierarchy of Concerns in Residential Establishments 5. Of Sisyphus and Snowballs 6. The Working Myth 7. More about Myths 8. Of Skeletons and Shells 9. Across the Boundaries 10. Application and Change Bibliography Index

O autorze

James S. Atherton