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Change is a relativistic construct. Understanding the nature of human change is essentially an epistemological endeavor that involves making multiple distinctions from numerous vantage points. Change cannot be conceptualized independently from some arbitrarily defined unit(s) of analysis, and how these unit(s) are constructed determines how people perceive the causes, directions, magnitudes, and, ultimately, the meanings of change. Within different analytic frames, human movement may be interpretable as “beneficial” versus “detrimental,” “managed” versus “spontaneous,” “volitional” versus “accidental,” “straightforward” versus “convoluted,” “continuous” versus “discrete,” “real” versus “illusory” and in a multitude of other ways.
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Allen, G.J., Sheckley, B.G. (1992). Lineal and Recursive Perspectives on Change: Describing the Development and Amelioriation of Agoraphobia. In: Klar, Y., Fisher, J.D., Chinsky, J.M., Nadler, A. (eds) Self Change. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2922-3_6
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