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George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover an... more George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover and tell engaging stories that can teach us all the most important lessons in life. With 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, he strives especially to help kids and teens learn these life lessons early on, providing them opportunities for getting help, and even learning to think preventively. Burns has made an invaluable contribution to helping young people build good skills and good lives.
Sociological research is based on the use of empirical data to substantiate concepts and theories... more Sociological research is based on the use of empirical data to substantiate concepts and theories and to test hypotheses. Empirical data: Facts that we observe, measure, and verify with our senses.
In it's broadest conception, a "system" may be described as a complex of interacting components t... more In it's broadest conception, a "system" may be described as a complex of interacting components together with the relationships among them that permit the identification of a boundary-maintaining entity or process. Since social and psychological phenomena tend to resist quantitative modeling by posing basic difficulties already on the plane of boundary identification, alternative approaches must be relied upon. One such approach draws on the body of knowledge derived from General System Theory and its application in the domain of human activity systems.
George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover an... more George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover and tell engaging stories that can teach us all the most important lessons in life. With 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, he strives especially to help kids and teens learn these life lessons early on, providing them opportunities for getting help, and even learning to think preventively. Burns has made an invaluable contribution to helping young people build good skills and good lives.
Sociological research is based on the use of empirical data to substantiate concepts and theories... more Sociological research is based on the use of empirical data to substantiate concepts and theories and to test hypotheses. Empirical data: Facts that we observe, measure, and verify with our senses.
In it's broadest conception, a "system" may be described as a complex of interacting components t... more In it's broadest conception, a "system" may be described as a complex of interacting components together with the relationships among them that permit the identification of a boundary-maintaining entity or process. Since social and psychological phenomena tend to resist quantitative modeling by posing basic difficulties already on the plane of boundary identification, alternative approaches must be relied upon. One such approach draws on the body of knowledge derived from General System Theory and its application in the domain of human activity systems.