The Complexity Of Connection

Author : Judith V. Jordan,Linda M. Hartling,Maureen Walker
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1593850255

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The Complexity of Connection by Judith V. Jordan,Linda M. Hartling,Maureen Walker Pdf

In this important third volume from the Stone Center at Wellesley College, founding scholars and new voices expand and deepen the Center's widely embraced psychological theory of connection as the core of human growth and development. Demonstrating the increasing sophistication of Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), the volume presents an absorbing and practical examination of connection and disconnection at both individual and societal levels. Chapters explore how experiences of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and gender influence relationships, and how people can connect across difference and disagreement. Also discussed are practical implications of the theory for psychotherapy, for the raising of sons, and for workplace and organizational issues.

Author : Maureen Walker,Wendy B. Rosen
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1593850328

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How Connections Heal by Maureen Walker,Wendy B. Rosen Pdf

From faculty and associates of the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, this practice-oriented casebook shows how relational-cultural theory (RCT) translates into therapeutic action. Richly textured chapters-all written especially for this volume-explain key concepts of RCT and demonstrate their application with diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as in institutional settings. Emphasizing that relationship is the work of therapy, case narratives illuminate both the therapist and client factors that promote or interfere with movement toward connection. Highlighted are the ways in which cultural contexts profoundly influence relationships; how growthful connection inevitably includes conflict; and how experienced therapists work on a moment-by-moment basis to engage with and counteract personal and cultural forces of disconnection.

Author : Robert Leve
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031091049

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The Complexity of Human Thought by Robert Leve Pdf

This book provides an innovative interdisciplinary approach to understanding the principles of human thinking and offers techniques concerning the solution of abstract problems and predictions based on those principles. Utilizing the concepts of complexity science, the book explains the emergence and structural elements of cognitive models underlying such diverse human behaviors as abstract thought, kindness, and selfishness. Such cognitive models allow humans to react to their present environments and make accurate and useful predictions of their futures. Those who might find this book of interest are primarily academics or professionals interested in a unique and interdisciplinary approach to cognition based on complexity science. The book may also be utilized as a supplemental class text in programs on complexity science, life science, and cognition.

Author : Nadia Creignou,Phokion G. Kolaitis,Heribert Vollmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540928003

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Complexity of Constraints by Nadia Creignou,Phokion G. Kolaitis,Heribert Vollmer Pdf

Nowadays constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in many different areas of computer science, from artificial intelligence and database systems to circuit design, network optimization, and theory of programming languages. Consequently, it is important to analyze and pinpoint the computational complexity of certain algorithmic tasks related to constraint satisfaction. The complexity-theoretic results of these tasks may have a direct impact on, for instance, the design and processing of database query languages, or strategies in data-mining, or the design and implementation of planners. This state-of-the-art survey contains the papers that were invited by the organizers after conclusion of an International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Complexity of Constraints, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October 2006. A number of speakers were solicited to write surveys presenting the state of the art in their area of expertise. These contributions were peer-reviewed by experts in the field and revised before they were collated to the 9 papers of this volume. In addition, the volume contains a reprint of a survey by Kolaitis and Vardi on the logical approach to constraint satisfaction that first appeared in 'Finite Model Theory and its Applications', published by Springer in 2007.

Author : Mr Nick Obolensky
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472447937

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Complex Adaptive Leadership by Mr Nick Obolensky Pdf

Complex Adaptive Leadership, a Gower bestseller, has been taught in corporate leadership programmes, business schools and universities around the world to high acclaim. In this updated paperback edition, the author argues that leadership is a complex dynamic process and should involve all those engaged in a particular enterprise. Nick Obolensky has practised, researched and taught leadership in the public, private and voluntary sectors, and in this exciting book he brings together his knowledge of theory, his own experience, and the results of 19 years of research involving 2,500 executives in 40 countries around the world.

Author : Stanislav Zivny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642339738

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The Complexity of Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Stanislav Zivny Pdf

The topic of this book is the following optimisation problem: given a set of discrete variables and a set of functions, each depending on a subset of the variables, minimise the sum of the functions over all variables. This fundamental research problem has been studied within several different contexts of discrete mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence under different names: Min-Sum problems, MAP inference in Markov random fields (MRFs) and conditional random fields (CRFs), Gibbs energy minimisation, valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs), and, for two-state variables, pseudo-Boolean optimisation. In this book the author presents general techniques for analysing the structure of such functions and the computational complexity of the minimisation problem, and he gives a comprehensive list of tractable cases. Moreover, he demonstrates that the so-called algebraic approach to VCSPs can be used not only for the search for tractable VCSPs, but also for other questions such as finding the boundaries to the applicability of certain algorithmic techniques. The book is suitable for researchers interested in methods and results from the area of constraint programming and discrete optimisation.

Author : Judith V. Jordan,Alexandra G. Kaplan,Irene P. Stiver,Janet L. Surrey,Jean Baker Miller
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0898625629

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Women's Growth In Connection by Judith V. Jordan,Alexandra G. Kaplan,Irene P. Stiver,Janet L. Surrey,Jean Baker Miller Pdf

Overly emotional, hysterical, dependent, frivolous, fickle... Why have women been so consistently defined as deficient in maturity, self-mastery, and independence according to the models of human development inspired by male culture? The authors of WOMEN'S GROWTH IN CONNECTION, a sampling of the influential working papers from the Stone Center, Wellesley College, have sought to answer this question by studying developmental theory and reformulating it to reflect women's experience more accurately. These papers, about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relational perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--clinicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that take into account women's meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences, all of which often revolves around relationships rather than the self. By offering a new perspective on women's development, WOMEN'S GROWTH IN CONNECTION stands at the forefront of the ongoing feminist movement to examine and reshape psychological theory and practice. The authors offer this volume as an invitation to the reader to join in the building of new models of women's development.

Author : Mary Jo Hinsdale
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462099951

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Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education by Mary Jo Hinsdale Pdf

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with “outsider” students – those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and – given higher education’s troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances – it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of difference such as social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, or ability. Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education examines the seemingly spontaneous and serendipitous connection between mentor and protégé, and points to a new vision of mentorship based on a deep sense of reciprocity between the two. Hinsdale proposes that if more mentors take a responsive, decolonizing approach to their work across difference, then the promise of social and class mobility through education might be realized for more of our students and the tide might begin to turn toward an increasingly inclusive, intellectually open academy.

Author : Dennis J. D. Sandole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134208906

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Capturing the Complexity of Conflict by Dennis J. D. Sandole Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nizar Abdelkafi
Publisher : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business logistics
ISBN : 3503110224

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Variety Induced Complexity in Mass Customization by Nizar Abdelkafi Pdf

Author : Maureen Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807763377

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When Getting Along Is Not Enough by Maureen Walker Pdf

Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic census box we check and more with how we make sense of our lives--who we are and who we can become in relationships with others. Using anecdotes from her practice as a licensed psychologist and as an African American growing up in the South, Walker provides a way for educators and social service professionals to enter into cross-racial discussions about race and race relations. She identifies three essential relational skills for personal transformation and cultural healing that are the foundations for repairing the damage wrought by racism. While Walker does not sugarcoat the destructive history of racism that we all inherit in the United States, the book's vision is ultimately affirming, empowering, hopeful, and inclusive about the individual and collective power to heal our divisions and disconnections. Book Features: Presents a new way of understanding race as a relational dynamic and racism as a symptom of disconnection. Synthesizes, for the first time, two important systems of thought: relational-cultural theory and race/social identity theory. Includes "Pause to Reflect" exercises designed to stimulate group conversations in book clubs, social justice groups, staff development, classrooms, and workplace training. Offers practical, everyday solutions for people of different races to better understand and accept one another.

Author : Philip Pregill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351129626

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Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape by Philip Pregill Pdf

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity. Beginning with a history of the urban grid, the book then discusses experiential factors of pedestrianized urban landscapes in three scales, arterials, collectors and locals, with an emphasis on inductive and deductive design alternatives. It closely examines elements derived from current urban pedestrian experiences including form, scale, surfaces and identity and provides alternative design solutions for the future. Uniquely focusing on a hierarchical discussion of the quality of contemporary landscape design applications within the urban grid, and with illustrated examples throughout the text, this will be useful recommended reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students on urban landscape and design courses.

Author : Harrie de Swart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540697787

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Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods by Harrie de Swart Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX'98, held in Oisterwijk near Tilburg, The Netherlands, in May 1998. The volume presents 17 revised full papers and three system descriptions selected from 34 submissions; also included are several abstracts of invited lectures, tutorials, and system comparison papers. The book presents new research results for automated deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include software verification, systems verification, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis.

Author : G. Ivory,A. Hyle,R. McClellan,M. Acker-Hocevar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137363251

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Quandaries of the Small-District Superintendency by G. Ivory,A. Hyle,R. McClellan,M. Acker-Hocevar Pdf

Focused on the particular needs of superintendents of districts of fewer than ten thousand students, the chapters teach students critical frameworks for thinking through and addressing the problems and practices superintendents encounter daily, allowing them to form a detailed and practical understanding of administration and leadership.

Author : Rosanne Knox,David Murphy,Susan Wiggins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350305533

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Relational Depth by Rosanne Knox,David Murphy,Susan Wiggins Pdf

This wide-ranging textbook offers a fascinating survey of the latest thinking and research on in-depth therapeutic encounters by bringing together the latest theory, research and practice on working at relational depth with clients in counselling and psychotherapy. By exploring the meaning, challenges and experiences of relational depth, it provides insight into an important dimension of therapeutic practice and, for many, will act as a guide to new ways of thinking about their therapeutic relationships. This book is an essential read for all trainees and practitioners in counselling and psychotherapy who want to deepen their levels of therapeutic relating.