Welcome to The Library of Professional Psychology (LPP)!
The Library of Professional Psychology (LPP) is an internet based growing collection of documents focusing on the challenging practice of professional psychology.
Articles posted in this library range over many topics – from brief psycho-biographical essays that allow us to view moments in the lives of men and women from many different cultures, to extended analyses regarding complex personal, organizational, societal and cultural dynamics. Some of the articles offer practical suggestions and relevant insights while others encourage questions, inviting reflection and the opportunity to challenge established psychological principles and practices.
We hope that our library serves as a valuable, free, Internet-based source of information for you about professional psychology. LPP is an easily searchable database of trusted, high-caliber, peer-reviewed content. As the co-curators of this library, we are committed to making every article in The Library of Professional Psychology evocative of dialog. We are offering in our collection of documents not only the cutting edge of psychological concepts but also a diversity of perspective that does justice to the global intellectual community in which we now live.
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Organizational Consultation XVII The Chartering Process (Part Two)
The appreciative chartering process enables members of an organization to assess the range and implications of existing intentions, as well as discover new intentions that emerge naturally from, and in alignment with, existing intentions. Chartering is like appreciation. It focuses on both the past and future, while also being firmly grounded in present day realities.
Studio Five: Hillbilly Elegy
The fitth PSP/Adler Studio focused on a recent, award-winning movie–Hlllbellly Elegy–that is based on the reallife experiences of a young …
The Word for World is Work: The Life of Women
Authors: Rosalind Sun Peng Lee and William Bergquist Illustrator: Dustin Markel This book concerns the world in which three different …
A Handbook for Faculty Develoment: Volume Two
Authors: William Bergquist and Steven Phillips The three volumes of A Handbook for Faculty Development are now legendary. They played …
Who is Wounding the Healers: The Four Cultures of Health Care
Those who are providing health care and those running health care organizations are themselves wounded. As a result, they can’t fully attend to the needs of those who seek their wisdom and assistance.
Creating the Appreciative Organization
This book is intended as one effort to expand the range of and deepen our understanding about the processes of appreciative inquiry.
Organizational Consultation XVI The Chartering Process: Part One
There is an organization process that fully engages the three components of choosing, prizing and acting. It is called chartering. …
Dancing with the Internet and Other Human Embedded Technologies
This is the first in a series of recorded interviews concerning the impact of emergent technologies on the way in which we think, feel and take actions. William Bergquist, Ph.D. conducted this interview with Karin Bustmante, Psy.D., a distinguished psychotherapist and professor living in Boulder Colorado.
Memory and the Internet
We are ready to introduce a new character into this dance that we are choreographing regarding memory. This new character is the Internet. This new character has a major impact on the way we assimilate and accommodate, on the way in which we engage procedural and declarative memory, and on the way in which we remember and forget. Let’s first consider assimilation and accommodation.
Organizational Consultation XV Appreciative Consulting Within the Domain of Intentions
Social philosophers, historians and organizational consultants are in agreement that it is valuable to conceive of all organizations as systems, …
