Abbott L. Ferriss

Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life

How to Enhance the Quality of Life
Herausgeber: Ferriss, Abbott L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume reviews methods for improving each of the ten quality of life domains, and the overall Quality of Life. The steps outlined here offer a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow, providing a handbook for community workers.

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After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiences in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the Quality of Life. Steps to improve health, means of reducing environmental toxins, orientation to bring about better self-concept and mental health, and so forth. In each such atrea, steps are set forth for eliminating undesirable and debiliting features of the domain. Social change comes about by the application of devised steps. The precess has been called "telesis". It is the application of intelligent. well-tested, interventions to being about improvement. In some cases it may effect change quickly and other may require a continuing process of adjustment and change. As a handbook for community workers, the volume provides a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow.

Produktdetails

• Social Indicators Research Series 42
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11951971, 978-90-481-9147-5
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9789048191475
• ISBN-10: 9048191475
• Artikelnr.: 29007760

Inhaltsangabe

Survival of the Species.- Social Acceptance.- Mastery.- Affective Autonomy.- Intellectual Autonomy.- Harmony.- Conservatism.- Hierarchy.- Egalitarian Commitment.- Health.- Toward the Good Life in a Good Society.- Interventions.