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II. APPLICATIONS:

Note to the Qualified Practitioner: Read the Chapters on the major applications for the best how-to-do supported by research writing on: Counseling and Psychotherapy, Education, Career Counseling, Use in Organizations , and Diversity and Multi-Cultural settings. MBTI® Manual, 3rd Edition, by Myers, McCaulley, Quenk and Hammer, CPP Inc, 1998.

A.  MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
Introduction to Type in Organizations, 3rd Edition by Sandra Krebs Hirsh and Jean M. Kummerow, CPP Inc, 1998. Helps employees understand their workplace preferences and reduce stress and conflict. This introduction is used around the world having been translated into many languages.
Introduction to Type and Teams, 2nd Edition by Elizabeth Hirsh, Katherine W. Hirsh, and Sandra Krebs Hirsh. CPP, Inc, 2003. Helps team members maximize their contributions and effectiveness. Information on how individuals of each type contribute to a team and how they can maximize their effectiveness.
Introduction to Type and Coaching, by Sandra Krebs Hirsh and Jane A. G. Kise, CPP,Inc, 2000. A valuable guide for coaches, counselors, and their clients in understanding the differing developmental patterns and needs of each type.
Introduction to Type and Conflict by Damian Killen and Danica Murphy, CPP Inc, 2003. Use type as a tool in managing conflict.
Introduction to Type and Communication by Donna Dunning, CPP Inc, 2003. Increase communication effectiveness in organizations. With today’s emphasis on team-based and collaborative management and decision making, communications can make or break an organization.
Type and Retention by Allen L. Hammer, CPP Inc, 2003. Based on research data from the U. S. national sample gathered for the revision of the MBTI® Inventory and years of experience with the MBTI® Inventory, Hammer gives a roadmap for retaining talent using knowledge of type.
Using Type in Selling by Susan Brock, CPP Inc, 1994. Brock is the creator of FLEX Selling®, 1993, a training program designed to use knowledge of the type-related personal-approach needs of customer to increase sales effectiveness.
Developing Leaders, Research and Applicatios in Psychological Type and Leadership Development edited by Catherine Firzgerald and Linda K. Kirby, CPP Inc, 1997. Specific chapters illustrate the connection between psychological type and such topics as strategic decision-making style, organizational change, communication style, strategic planning and willingness of managers to change after feedback.
The Leadership Advantage Training Program, Using the MBTI® Instrument for Effective Leadership Facilitator’s Guide by Roger R. Pearman. CPP Inc. A comprehensive binder for MBTI®trainers conducting leadership workshops.
Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness Through Psychological Type by Roger Pearman, CPP Inc, . This 60-page booklet provides practical suggestions for executives, managers, and supervisors.
MBTI® Type and Change by Nancy J. Barger and Linda K. Kirby, authors of The Challenge of Change in Organizations, CPP Inc, 2003. Provides successful guidance to organizations confronting change.

B. CAREER COUNSELING AND WORK
Introduction to Type and Careers by Allen L. Hammer, CPP Inc, 1993. Help your clients be involved in their own career search using MBTI® Inventory results.
New Directions in Career Planning and the Workplace , Practical Strategies for Counselors, Jean M. Kummerow, Editor,
Do What You Are, Discover the Perfect Career For You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger, Little, Brown and Company, 1992. Includes explanation of type, workbook exercises, in-depth interviews, job search strategies, and list of occupations that are popular for each of the 16 types.
Type Talk at Work, How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job, by Otto Kroeger with Janet Thuesen, Delacorte Press, 1992. Learn to be more effective on the job and get the most out of your employees – and employers by recognizing your own type and those of your coworkers.
Using Type Theory in Career Counseling by Margaret Hartzler,  Type Makes a Difference, Inc.,  Revised 2004. Based on a thorough review of the literature and  25 years of designing exercises and facilitating workshops.

C. COUNSELING AND THERAPY - RELATIONSHIPS AND GROWTH
Applications of the MBTI® in Counseling, Second edition, by Judith A. Provost, CAPT, 1993. Case studies of 18 clients representing all 16 types with recommended ways of helping individuals and couples.
Intimacy and Type, A Practical Guide for Improving Relationships for Couples and Counselors, by Jane Hardy Jones and Ruth Sherman, CAPT, 1997. Two psychologists with more than 25 years of experience in using type to help their clients improve their relationships and communication.
Just Your Type, Create the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type, by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger, Little, Brown &Company, 2000. Learn how to navigate the frustrations and rewards of your own specific pairing of personality types.
Using Type with Couples by Margaret and Gary Hartzler,  Type Makes a Difference, Inc, Revised 2004.  Based on experience and research with 2500 couples, authors identity type related strengths and trouble spots.  Exercises designed to help couples address their typological trouble spots using their typological strengths.

D.  EDUCATION – TEACHING AND LEARNING
People Types and Tiger Stripes by Gordon Lawrence, Third Edition, CAPT, 1993. This guidebook designed for teachers to use type to better understand the differing learning needs of their students and to design lesson plans accordingly. First published in 1979, it is now in its 3rd edition and is a classic.
Using the MBTI® Instrument in Colleges and Universities by Judith A. Provost and Scott Anchors, CAPT, 2003. Topics range from residential environments and campus retention to academic advising and career development. For vocational schools, community colleges, and four-year public or private universities.
Introduction to Type in College by John K. Ditiberio and Allen L. Hammer, CPP Inc, 1993. Helps students improve study techniques and resolve roommate conflicts.
Writing and Personality, Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way, by John K. Tiberio and George H. Jensen, Davies-Black Publishing, 1995. Provides exercises, anecdotes, writing samples from each type, and tips for communicating effectively with others.

E. DIVERSITY AND MULTI-CULTURAL
Leadership, Type and Culture edited by Charles Ginn, CAPT, 2001. Explores within each country featured the use and expansion of the use of the MBTI® Inventory as an universal tool which can build a common bond across political, ethnic, and religious boundaries.

F.  HEALTH CARE
Health Care Communication Using Personality Type, by July Allen and Susan A. Brock. CAPT, . Patients are different, too! They have different needs, ways of communicating and accepting communications. Recognition of these different improve interaction between health care professionals and their colleagues and patients.

G.  LIFE STAGES
i. Childhood
The Developing Child, using Jungian type to understand children, by Elizabeth Murphy, CPP Inc 1992. Written for parents and teachers in clear, easy-to-understand style. The author suggests ways that knowledge of type can be used to enhance relationships with children and increase awareness of children’s developmental needs and special gifts and talents.
Questions Children May Have About Type Differences by Elizabeth Murphy, CAPT, 1987. Here are 26 questions answered in language children understand.
One of a Kind, making the most of your child’s uniqueness, by LaVonne Neff, Moltnomah Press, 1988 Neff was introduced to the MBTI® Inventory in making a career decision. The concepts gave her such insight about herself and her family that she continued to study type. In a clear and understandable style, Neff explains how understanding personality type can bring improvement to family happiness and harmony
Type Tales, understanding and celebrating diversity through type, by Diane Farris, CAPT, 2000. Tales told through the eyes of two young dogs, Millie and Momo, who are very good friends and are astounded at how different they are. The listener learns more about differences and how these differences can be treasured and celebrated. For children second through fifth grade.


ii.  Teenage
Finding Your Fit by Jane Kise and Kevin Johnson, Bethany House Publishers, 1999. A useful tool for youth leaders in helping to guide teens age 15 and up through tumultuous times. Stories, self-tests, and easy-to-use exercises.
Find Your Fit: Discovery Workbook by Jane Kise and Kevin Johnson, Bethany House Publishers, 1999. Workbook for teens to be used with Find Your Fit.
Building Self-Esteem, Strategies for Success in School…and Beyond, by Bonnie J. Golden and Kay Lesh, Gorsuch Scarisbrick Publishers, 1994. For teen-agers and beyond.

iii.  MidLife
In Midlife, a Jungian Perspective by Murray Stein, Spring Publications, Inc., 1983. Using Hermes, the god of the journey as the guide, Stein gives a wise and interesting model of the transition through mid-life.
Navigating Midlife, using typology as a guide, by Eleanor S. Corlett and Nancy B. Millner, CPP Inc, 1993. Portraying midlife as a time of opportunity rather than crisis, the authors build on Jungian theory and the typology of the MBTI® Inventory to provide understanding and encouragement through this transition.

iv. Coming of Age
See article by Nancy Millner

v.  The Elder Years
Creative Aging, discovering the unexpected joys of later life through personality type, by Nancy B. Millner, CPP Inc, 1998. The author looks at aging with a healthy realism that neither sugarcoats at the one extreme nor conveys a sense of bleak inevitability at the other. She offers a pathway that is challenging and rewarding.
Let Evening Come by Mary C. Morrison, Doubleday, 1998. In this daring but gently written reflection on aging, eighty-seven year-old Mary C. Morrison considers the sources of strength and dignity that truly allow people to grow old gracefully and to retain a joy for life.


  Other instruments might use the structure and names for the sixteen types but if anything other than the authentic MBTI® instrument
  was used the results are not MBTI® types or preferences and should not be presented as such. In addition, a person-to-person
  feedback between practitioner and client is critical and the interpretation session must be scheduled before the client receives the results.


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