This book focuses on the total array of intentional changes that people achieve in themselves and their lives. This book is based on interviews with 330 men and women. Of these 330 interviews, 180 were conducted during the process of developing the final interview schedule, or were conducted by graduate students as course projects.

This book is written for professionals, policymakers, and the academic community in several fields concerned with intentional changes: counseling and personal growth, lifelong learning for adults, psychology, the self-help movement, the women's movement, secondary and higher education, health, social work, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, personal transformation, psychotherapy, and religion.
The book will not only give such readers a better understanding of a central phenomenon in their fields, but will also suggest several specific implications for improved practice and policy and for future research.
This book does not provide a complete picture or scenario. How could it? It lacks examination of the fascinating changes associated with the violence of revolutions.

Brief Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 Focusing on Intentional Changes
2 Areas of Change
3 The Size and Importance of Intentional Changes
4 Who Chooses. Plans, and Implements the Changes
5 Implications for Improving Professional Practice and Policy
6 An Optimum Amount of Professional Control
7 Significant Directions for Research
8 An Optimistic Future for Intentional Changes
Appendix: The Interview Schedule
References
Acknowledgments
Index
About Author

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