Richard Winter

Alyson Buck

Paula Sobiechowska

This book explains how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education. It argues that there is a role for this imaginative style in an area that has traditionally favoured a more distanced approach.

The Art of Reflective Writing

Professional Experience & the Investigative Imagination

Depression strikes millions, across all ages and demographic groups. Approximately one in eight will have a severe depressive episode at some point in their life. Women experience depression twice as often as men. And over fifty percent of people with serious depression do not get adequate help. What can be done? Psychiatrist and theologian Richard Winter explores the complex medical and psychological issues surrounding depression. He sorts through recent scientific research on its biochemical and genetic causes and examines social and cultural factors. Winter also dispels common Christian misunderstandings of depression and looks at how biblical characters experienced severe despair. Throughout he offers ways to help the suffering. Even in the shadow of the valley of death, there is hope for healing and deliverance. This book is a helpful guide for those who find themselves, their loved ones or those they counsel vulnerable to depression. Find here a framework both for understanding depression and for rediscovering hope.

Finding Hope in the Midst of Depression

When Life Goes Dark

This book explains and demonstrates how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education where traditionally a more distanced approach to reporting on professional experience has been favoured. It is based on many practical examples, drawn from several years' experience of running courses for social workers, nurses, teachers, managers and higher education staff, in which participants explore their professional practice through imaginative forms of writing. The participants experience of the work is presented through a discussion of interviews and evaluative documents. The book includes a set of distance-learning materials for those wishing to undertake such work for themselves or to establish similar courses, as well as a full analysis of the link between professional reflection and the artistic imagination. The book makes available a new and more broadly-based approach to the process of professional reflection, and the concept of the patchwork text has general relevance for debates about increasing access to higher education qualifications.

Professional Experience and the Investigative Imagination

Richard Winter explores the positive and negative effects of perfectionism on our lives and offers fascinating insight and instruction into the healthy pursuit of excellence.

The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism

Perfecting Ourselves to Death

Susan Winter Balk

Gregory Weeks

The complexity of modern Vienna is revealed through insightful interviews & striking images relayed to readers by the late Richard Winter, a Viennese Jew who escaped to America in 1938. Beneath the facade of a the city's grandiose architecture lies conflict within the population as they come to grips with their past.

Close-ups and Conversations After Hitler

Vienna's Conscience

Christopher Day

Bridget Somekh

John Elliott

The work of public service professionals all over the world has become more complex in recent years as they have had to manage new realities of the intensification of work, persistent demands to raise standards without the power to influence the nature, direction or pace of these, and associated increases in bureaucracy. By regularly and systematically reflecting upon their thinking and practice and the contexts in which these take place, many professionals have found 'room to manoeuvre' and have been able to rediscover, articulate and communicate a set of core values that promote the care and concern for welfare and the public good, which are essential components of work in the public service sector. This book contains 16 articles from across the professions and from different countries which explore and examine the nature, purposes, processes and outcomes of action research, its importance to professional growth and the challenges of collaboration and change. Written by practitioners from schools and universities, health and social services, it provides a comprehensive yet focused critical appraisal which the Editors believe is essential reading for all for whom lifelong learning is a key component of being and sustaining themselves as professionals.

some international perspectives

Theory and Practice in Action Research

Cu toate ca avem astazi sute de posibilitati de a ne distra – jocuri video, acces la internet, CD-uri, DVD-uri, MP3 playere, cluburi, evenimente sportive, megamalluri, cinematografe, teatre, chiar si jucarii robotizate – ne luptam cu o perfida boala, o epidemie de plictiseala. Intrigat de aceasta „moarte a sufletului“, Richard Winter – pe baza ultimelor studii in domeniile fiziologic si psihologic ce au ca scop analiza naturii, cauzelor si efectelor plictiselii – examineaza de ce unii oameni au tendinta sa fie mai plictisiti decat altii, ce se ascunde in spatele indiferentei tinerilor si a faptului ca isi pierd telul, cum se explica atractia pentru sporturile extreme, de ce reclamele propaga apatia si care este legatura dintre plictiseala si dependenta de violenta si pornografie. Winter nu se rezuma la o simpla descriere si analiza rece, ci ofera si modalitati pragmatice de contracarare a plictiselii printr-o traire cu pasiune. „Intr-o lume in care navigatorii pe internet cauta o diversi¬une pentru a scapa de existenta lor plictisitoare, Richard Winter ofera pe langa un diagnostic scrupulos al acestei boli debilitante si un tratament pe masura. Citeste aceasta carte, este un bun pansament pentru suflet.“ James W. Sire, autorul cartii Universul de langa noi. Richard Winter, s-a nascut in Anglia si a profesat ca medic psihiatru in Bristol. Actualmente este profesor asociat de teo­logie aplicata la Convenant Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, SUA. Este vorbitor apreciat in conferinte pe tema depresiei, plictiselii si aspectelor etice in ingineria genetica. Este, de asemenea, autorul cartilor: The Roots of Sorrow: Reflections on Depression and Hope si Choose Life: A Christian Perspective on Abortion and Embryo Experimentation.

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Maire Maisch

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The ASSET Programme

Professional Competence And Higher Education

Psychiatrist and theologian Richard Winter explores the complex issues surrounding depression. He sorts through scientific research, dispels common misunderstandings and looks at how biblical characters experienced despair. Here is help for all those who find themselves, loved ones or those they counsel vulnerable to depression.

Richard Winter

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