Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life How to Enhance the Quality of Life
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Abbott L. Ferriss
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Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life How to Enhance the Quality of Life
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Springer-Verlag
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9789048191482
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Methoden der empirischen und qualitativen Sozialforschung
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After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiences in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the Quality of Life. Steps to improve health, means of reducing environmental toxins, orientation to bring about better self-concept and mental health, and so forth. In each such area, steps are set forth for eliminating undesirable and debilitating features of the domain. Social change comes about by the application of devised steps. The process has been called 'telesis'. It is the application of intelligent, well-tested interventions to bring about improvement. In some cases it may effect change quickly and others may require a continuing process of adjustment and change. As a handbook for community workers, the volume provides a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow.
Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction
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The Social Environment
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Domains of the QOL
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Positive and Negative
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Subjective, Objective
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QOL
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Happiness
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1 Survival of the Species
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Factors Leading to Extension
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Fertility
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Factors Leading to Exhaustion
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Suicide
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Disease
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Disasters
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War
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Genocide
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Religious Conflict
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Tribal Extinction
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Family Violence
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Conclusion: Factors Promoting Survival
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2 Social Acceptance
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Mental Health
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Spiritual Experiences
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Lower Mortality
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Trends
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Social System
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Family
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Child Socialization
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Offspring Defects
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Homosexuality
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Teen Pregnancy
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Friendship
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Group Participation
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Group Structure
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Headaches
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Leisure Time
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3 Mastery
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Free Markets
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Income
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Success
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Poverty
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Child Poverty
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Materialism
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Religion
