ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts presents in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is about the understanding and it is for example only that illustrations are given to show how such understanding can be used to inform and enhance values, skill and choices. Understanding the nature of a problem and how it could be changed will only help people to act when combined with a knowledge of available services and with practical ability. The book focuses on human behaviour and interaction offered by writers from different perspectives. It talks about individuals in relationship, how they grow and how they behave, constructively and destructively, and some of the factors which contribute to these processes. The book concentrates on the norm, making only some reference to unusual circumstances. It deals with integration, integration of the disparate parts of the self and integration of the inner world of hopes and fears with the objective reality of the world without.
