ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problem of personal change and development. Development may be conceptualized as a series of related transformations. Some transformations of identity and perspective are planned by institutional representatives; others happen despite, rather than because of, such regulated anticipation; and yet other transformations take place outside the orbits of the more visible social structure. Enough has been said about various types of turning points to suggest that these are points in development when an individual has to take stock, to re-evaluate, revise, resee, and rejudge. Membership in any enduring group or social structure inevitably involves passage from status to status. The problems attending the speed of status-passage are merely part of the larger organizational problem of recruiting members for various posts. The coach stands ready to interpret his responses, which may otherwise only have the status of ambiguous signs.
