The authors, all psychologists with expertise in consultancy, seek to convey the nature of organizational change, the functions of the organizational consultant, and key issues in making changes work in practice. Fundamental concepts explained in the manual include those of organizational development; the organizational development intervention; and the ways in which change agents consult to organizations (as well as organizational issues that must be addressed in the process). The authors discuss several consultancy models: the purchase/expert model: the doctor/patient model; and the process consultancy model, in which the consultant's primary focus is facilitating clients' efforts to solve problems. The authors review theoretical considerations, i.e., the systems, psychoanalytic, and behavioral approaches to consultancy. They discuss sources of consultants as well as the knowledge, qualifications, and range of abilities consultants are expected to possess. The steps in consultancy are presented in detail; they include scouting, entry, contracting, data gathering, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and change management.

A Manual of Organizational Development: The Psychology of Change

Business & Money

Huffington, Clare

Cole, Carol F.

Brunning, Halina

Management & Leadership

Psychosocial Press

How can leaders (and their followers) make sense of their constantly changing roles in the workplace of the 21st century? This climate of change and displacement is causing enormous anxiety amongst today's workers at every level, and we must expect that this state will increase as the predictability and stability of the work environment continues to decrease. The chapters in this book mirror the complexity and open-endedness of the challenges we face in the workplace in the 21st century. The psychodynamic, open systems perspective on leadership that informs this book supports risk and change. Present and future leaders, regardless of race, gender, class, or nationality, will encounter an environment that demands openness, connection, insight, and psychological maturity -- in other words a much greater degree of flexibility than the traditional top-down management system has demanded. Chapters discuss such issues as the ways in which leaders can promote psychological presence in workers by fostering autonomy; an analysis of followership and its significance in the workplace; psychoanalytic theory as a tool for cultural enquiry; the role of anxiety in the new order; the need for leaders and workers to become more partnerlike; a systems theory of leadership that addresses complex issues in the workplace; the personal and administrative costs of directing a community mental health facility; visibility-vulnerability of women in leader ship roles; women's exercise of authority in the legal profession; self-authorization dilemmas.

The Psychodynamics of Leadership

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Text based on six papers written in the Research Department of the Weizsaecker Center for Medical Consultations, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Discusses the idea that there are unconscious fantasies specific to different organic dysfunctions or disorders. For professionals. DNLM: Psychophysiologic Disorders--complications.

Hidden Affects in Somatic Disorders: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Asthma, Psoriasis, Diabetes, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Other Disorders.

Chiozza, Luis A.

Mental Health

The Guide to Pastoral Counseling and Care

Loyola College, MD. Sets out to fill the 'religion information gap' which often exists between psychotherapists and the Protestant and Catholic clergy, sisters, brothers, and deacons they treat. Assessment, treatment planning, and intervention strategies are discussed.

Psychotherapy with Priests, Protestant Clergy, and Catholic Religious: A Practical Guide

Wicks, Robert J.

Ciarrocchi, Joseph W.

Account of what writers and teachers of writing face as resistances in their own and their students' work. Explores ways writers begin to talk with themselves about the complex experience of not being able to write creatively. Central tenet is that creative work is not allied with but rather blocked by psychopathology. Softcover.

The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition

Kolodny, Susan

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