Fwd: [Ailist] AI for families and individuals

[David J. Snider]

>
> Hi James
>
> I suggest you read Appreciative  Coaching by Orem, Binkert and  
> Clancy along with Stavros and Torres' Dynamic Relationships.  Both  
> offer excellent guides for taking an AI approach from  
> organizational change to personal and interpersonal change.   
> Dynamic Relationships does focus on interpersonal and family  
> relationships more than Appreciative Coaching does, if I remember  
> the two works accurately.  Another difference, if I remember  
> correctly, is that Dynamic Relationships is built more around AI  
> principles, while Appreciative Coaching is built more around the 4- 
> D process.  They complement each other richly.  Each book's  
> examples of situations are rich and inspire one's own memories and  
> dreaming of bringing AI into new settings.
>
> I just re-read your description of your clients.  I think reading  
> the sections on topic selection in AI in Whitney and Trosten- 
> Bloom's Power of Appreciative Inquiry or Cooperrider, Whitney and  
> Stavros' Appreciative Inquiry Handbook would help you build your  
> own path into AI for your clients.
>
> If you don't want to dig into all 4 at once, I suggest you take a  
> look at customer reviews of each on amazon.com.
>
> If you choose the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, you may want to  
> take advantage of Jackie Stavros' info on a discount price for the  
> new edition.  It is in her Ailist messages of December 6 and 7.  If  
> you don't have those, email me and I will send the info.
>
> I hope you enjoy shaping AI for use with your clients.
>
> Best to you,
>
> David
>
> David Snider, Ph.D.
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> On Dec 17, 2007, at 8:43 PM, James Werner wrote:
>
>> I am new to the listserve and am interested in the possibility of
>> using an AI-based intervention with families (and possibly
>> individuals) who need to make positive changes in their health
>> behaviors.  They may be obese, have heart disease or diabetes, eat an
>> unhealthy diet, use tobacco, have a sedentary life-style, etc.
>>
>> Does anyone know if any work has been done to adapt the AI
>> organizational change model for use with families or individuals,
>> either for health behavior change or even for for general
>> psychotherapy?
>>
>> Thank you -
>>
>> Jim Werner
>>
>> James J. Werner, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
>> School of Medicine
>> Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
>> Case Western Reserve University
>> 11001 Cedar Ave, Suite 306
>> Cleveland, OH 44106
>>
>> Office: 216-368-2996
>> Fax: 216-368-4348
>> E-mail: james.werner at case.edu
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