Boardroom and Bedroom: Consulting with Organizations and Family Systems

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hibel ◽  
Neil Katz
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Family Therapist ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Training Facility ◽  
Nova Southeastern University ◽  
Organizational Consultant ◽  
Professional Practitioners ◽  
Professional Disciplines

Neil Katz is a loyal St. Louis Cardinals fan and a career organizational consultant. Jim Hibel is a loyal Florida Marlins fan and a career family therapist. Nova Southeastern University brought their professional disciplines under the same roof at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences and the Cardinals and Marlins now share the same Spring Training Facility. Over the past several years, Neil and Jim have met regularly for Cardinal and Marlins spring training games, shared their mutual love of the game, and found ways to appreciate their different teams. In between innings, and rain delays they often talked about the passion, satisfaction, assumptions, and challenges they both experienced in their different professional practices. Through these conversations they became aware that though their disciplines have traditionally been isolated from one another, there are many interesting and potentially useful points of intersection. Thinking that these conversations might be beneficial to professional practitioners in organizational conflict, family therapy, and other related fields they decided to tape and edit some of their conversations. In the edited transcript that follows, Dr. Hibel is identified as JH and Dr Katz is identified as NK.

scholarly journals The early Browning: Pastoral care in a pluralistic age and the method of practical moral inquiry

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hestenes
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Moral Inquiry ◽  
Past President ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Academy

The past president of the International Academy of Practical Theology, Prof. Donald Browning, has written books and articles across a wide variety of topics concerning the correlation of many great fields of knowledge, including theology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, practical theology, ethics, family therapy and ecology over the past 40 years. Prof. Browning passed away on 03 June 2010. This left the author of this article with a desire to begin to reassess some of Browning’s earlier reflections regarding his vision of pastoral care in a pluralistic age and the importance of his method of practical moral inquiry.

The Flynn Effect

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Abstract Reasoning ◽  
Flynn Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Difference

In tandem with increases in delay of gratification, the human capacity for abstract reasoning has increased enormously over the past century. This phenomenon is called the Flynn Effect, after the political scientist who discovered it. I first learned about the Flynn Effect in graduate school. I remember thinking it was impossible. How could it be that as a species, we're getting smarter? And not just a little bit smarter. The size of the Flynn Effect is staggering: more than 30 IQ points—the difference between getting an average score on a standard intelligence test versus qualifying as mentally gifted. Gains are comparable in all areas of the United States and, indeed, around the world.

scholarly journals Something for Everyone: A Review of Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Tarnoki ◽  
Katheryne Puentes
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nova Southeastern University

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches (2018), by John W. Creswell and Cheryl N. Poth was written for anyone who is considering themselves to be researchers or interested in learning more about qualitative research. As students in doctoral programs studying family therapy at Nova Southeastern University, we felt that parts of the text were explicitly tailored toward the social sciences; however, the chapters are useful for anyone interested in qualitative research from many angles and aspects.

The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Brizuela-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
American History ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this manner, but it was clear that historians were, in one way or another, articulating a concern about how “African” was African history.The objective of this paper is to examine the history of Africanization in African historiography. It departs from two basic premises. First, the issues that come with the idea of Africanization are more pronounced in the field of African history. When compared to other fields, such as Latin American history, this indigenizing of history is not given nearly so much attention. Second, the idea that African history needs to be Africanized has been taken for granted, and has not been critically examined. Here I will contend that the historical conditions that have framed the emergence and development of African historiography have made it necessary to emphasize the issue of Africanization. I will also argue that those conditions have changed in the past fifty years, and that the questions raised in the quest to Africanize history should be redefined in view of the new challenges for African history and of historiography at large.

The Golden Virtue of Eclecticism in Economics John R. Commons Award Lecture

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Paul A. Samuelson
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Award Winner ◽  
Award Recipient ◽  
The Past ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Honor Students ◽  
The Commons

This award consists of no stipend for the recipient—rather travel money for graduate students presenting papers at the Meetings in 2001 and 2002 will be given in the name of the Commons award recipient. As we all know, ODE exists to honor students. This year's Commons award winner has arguably had more influence on students during the past fifty years than any other economist. We all became acquainted with him when we were undergraduates—via a book simply titled Economics. When we first started graduate school we met him again with a book known as Foundations. And when we started course work in our fields, in field after field we encountered seminal papers he had written. For example: in Public Finance “The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure”; in International Economics “International Trade and the Equalization of Factor Prices.” The list goes on and on and on—but I won't. It is my distinct privilege to be able to introduce this year's John R. Commons award winner: Prof. Paul Samuelson.

Attitudes toward Clinical Assessment by Members of the AABT

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Piotrowski ◽  
John W. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Behavioral Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Projective Measures ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Professional Practitioners ◽  
Future Utility ◽  
Rate Of Response

The present survey investigated the attitudes toward projective, objective, and behavioral assessment practices from members of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT). Of the 531 persons in the AABT sample, 171 returned the questionnaire for a 32.2% rate of response. In terms of future emphasis it appeared that both behavioral and objective personality assessment were deemed as continuing in popularity, while projective techniques were viewed with little future utility. However, professional practitioners were expected to be familiar with standard projective measures and tests of intelligence by about half the respondents. Further, AABT members felt somewhat pessimistic about the empirical credibility of assessment techniques in general. The implications of these findings for academic and applied emphasis in clinical assessment were discussed and compared to the findings of a previous survey of AABT members by Wade, Baker, and Hartmann in 1979. The emerging practical emphasis over the past several years on behavioral assessment has not yet matured in the academic and applied setting.

A Family Therapist’s Reaction to “the Influences of the Family of Origin on Career Development: A Review and Analysis”

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charleen Alderfer
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Family Therapist ◽  
Family Processes ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
The Family

This reaction to Whiston and Keller is that of a family therapist with great respect for the amount of work the article represents. Two theories of family therapy, structural and Bowenian, are discussed with particular attention to the contributions each can make in understanding the influences of families on career choices. The functional and dysfunctional family processes and dynamics of each theory are considered. Examples of how either family structure might influence career choices are included. The need for cooperative research between family therapists and counselors is stressed.

Mainstreaming the Applied Track: Connections, Guises, and Concerns

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actual Degree ◽  
Degree Choice

"It's not real anthropology!" many of us were told in Graduate School, as we pursued applied studies in our local communities. Today, our students are asking for applied courses and "mainstream" courses with applied and experiential components. In some colleges, the applied track is an actual degree choice; in others, we are working to integrate courses into a traditional curriculum. As professor and chair of anthropology in two very different institutions, I've worked with both of these models for the past thirteen years. This article outlines each of these routes, and explores the ways faculty can get recognition for the work that these types of classes entail, within an entrenched tenure and promotion model of research, teaching, and service.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT E. LUCAS, JR.

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett T. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Rational Expectations ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Monetary Economics ◽  
Recursive Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cyclical Fluctuations ◽  
Economics Profession ◽  
E Mail

Bob Lucas is widely regarded as the most influential economist of the past 25–30 years, at least among those working in macro and monetary economics. His work provided the primary stimulus for a drastic overhaul and revitalization of that broad area, an overhaul that featured the ascendance of rational expectations, the emergence of a coherent equilibrium theory of cyclical fluctuations, and specification of the analytical ingredients necessary for the use of econometric models in policy design. These are the accomplishments for which he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In addition, he has made outstanding contributions on other topics—enough, arguably, for another prize. Among these are seminal writings on asset pricing, economic growth and development, exchange-rate determination, optimal fiscal and inflation policy, and tools for the analysis of dynamic recursive models.Clearly, Bob Lucas is very much a University of Chicago product; he studied there both as an undergraduate and as a Ph.D. student and has been on the faculty since 1975. Also, he has served as chairman of the Chicago Department of Economics and two terms as an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Nevertheless, I and several colleagues at Carnegie Mellon like to point out that Bob was a professor here in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration from 1963 until 1974, during which time he conducted and published the central portions of the work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Consequently, I could not resist asking Bob a few questions about his GSIA years in the interview.Many researchers in the economics profession have been impressed and inspired by Lucas's technical skills, but the clarity and elegance of his writing style also deserve mention, plus his choice of research topics. The latter is reflective of Bob's utter seriousness of purpose. Each of his projects attacks a problem that is simultaneously of genuine theoretical interest and also of considerable importance from the perspective of economic policy. There is nothing frivolous about Lucas's research, as he had occasion to remind me during our interview.As is well known to those who have been around him, Bob Lucas is a person who never uses three words when one will suffice—but that one will usually be carefully chosen. This characteristic shows up in the interview below. As a departure from standard MD Interview practice, and with the Editor's permission, this interview was conducted at a distance—i.e., via mail and e-mail. It yielded a smaller number of pages than have previous interviews, but I think that readers will find them stimulating. The process of obtaining them was somewhat challenging but highly informative and thoroughly enjoyable for me.

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