Abstract
Politicians and kings have perhaps made the most distinctive and historically interesting attempts to change the behaviour of those they seek to control. Sometimes this has involved extreme measures, such as torture and execution, sometimes more subtle legal approaches to behaviour control, but these attempts perversely — and to the bafflement of the controller — have often failed to produce the desired outcome. Somehow, it seems, human nature appears to be resistant to change.
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Annotated reading
Griffiths, D. (1981) Psychology and Medicine. London: Macmillan and the British Psychological Society. This is primarily intended for GPs to enable the medical profession to acquire concepts relevant to their work so as to facilitate professional skill and expertise. Many of the topics covered will be of interest to the occupational therapist.
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Beech, H.R. (1982). Creating change. In: Psychology for Occupational Therapists. Psychology for Professional Groups. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16882-8_19
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