Unfinished business – the book

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’Unfinished business : essays on the development of Psychologically Informed Environments' is a collection of essays by Robin Johnson - the founder and original editor/curator of the PIElink (and the PIEs frameworks).

It was published just a few weeks after ‘Psychologically Informed Environments from the ground up: Service design for complex needs’ (HERE), which is Johnson’s summary of progress to date in the development of the ideas and the practice of PIEs.

Both books have the same innovative linkage between the printed draft and the website; and both, appearing in his 75 year, mark a further stage in the slow process of his semi-retirement.

The papers in this collection are just some of the pieces of 'unfinished' writings or other projects that Johnson was still wanting to work on, at the point where he had to start seriously winding down his activities, and be ruthless about priorities.

In these essays, Johnson delves more deeply into the thinking, the research and the theories behind the development of the PIEs concept and the potential role of the PIEs framework, the Pizazz and the PIE Abacus in future developments.

The book has a typically quite personal 'Foreword'; and then an Introduction, which you will find here in full; and likewise the 'Afterthought'. Here we then find the sections of this website that match the essays in the book - with links, where useful.

There are excerpts from most if not all of the chapters; and in two cases there are here the full 'structured abstracts' that are normally a pre-requisite for publication in an academic journal, These you will find here, as inclusion here allows hyperlinks to pages and library text here on the PIElink.

This innovative linkage between the book and the website is also used for the companion volume "Psychologically informed environments from the ground up : Service design for complex needs'. But in the case of this book, in particular, it allows the contents and narrative of the book to be truly 'unfinished'.....

Foreword
Introduction : Full text coming soon.
Three Models of the Origins of Homelessness, with their implications for the ‘psychology’ issues arising in services : HERE
Trauma is not the only psychology : Adverse Childhood Experiences and the development of responsive services: HERE
The Window of Tolerance, the Drama Triangle, and the Adjacent Possible : HERE
Attachment, trauma and the social environment : a bio-psycho-social perspective in homelessness work : COMING SOON
Strengths, ambivalence and paradox : group structures and peer to peer accountability in a community therapeutic environment: : HERE
Pre-treatment : PIEs in the micro-social world : HERE
Living in Temporary Accommodation : on meeting the psychological and emotional needs of those who are transiently housed : HERE
Unfinished business: COMING SOON
Afterthoughts : Full text coming soon.
About the author : COMING SOON

This book is available via Blackwell's (with £2.00 off!) : HERE

For those outside the UK, it available to order via Amazon : HERE:

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Unfinished business - the book

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