ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the idea of the personally created External Environment for consideration in the workplace. This is the second of the supportive unsupportive systems that enable us to manage when no other caregiver is available. This system is goal corrected, but the goals are intrapersonal not interpersonal. The external environment has an intrapersonal goal rather than one that is interpersonal, and it also influences how one experiences the other systems. It is one of the two systems "whose function is to support the self when no caregiver is available". The internal and external systems either support caregiving, careseeking, self-defence, interest sharing, and sexuality, or impair them. The external environment is also not goal corrected–it influences the other systems. The internal and external systems either support care giving, care seeking, self-defence, interest-sharing, sex or impair them. People know of the importance and impact of environment.
