This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated: ranging from goals, to emotion, to persistence and giving up, to living and dying. Both adaptive behavior and problems are examined. The book blends ideas that have long been part of self-regulation models with ideas that are recently emergent in psychology: dynamic systems and catastrophe theory. It also blends theoretical statement with wide-ranging discussion of issues.

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated: ranging from goals, to emotion, to persistence and giving up, to living and dying. Both adaptive behavior and problems are examined. The book blends ideas that have long been part of self-regulation models with ideas that are recently emergent in psychology: dynamic systems and catastrophe theory. It also blends theoretical statement with wide-ranging discussion of issues.

Eine Reihe praxisrelevanter Fragen zwischen Ann{sthesie und Kinderchirurgie sind noch nicht wissenschaftlich gekl{rt und f}hren immer wieder zu Spannungen. Im vorliegenden Symposiumsband sind Vortr{ge und Diskussionen des Symposiums "Das Kind im Spannungsfeld zwischen An{sthesie und Chirurgie" publiziert. Vor allem werden die Problemkreise Infektion, Narkose und Operation; Impfung, Narkose und Oper- ation; pr{operative Untersuchungen; Monitoring; post- operative Analgesie; Grenzen der Behandlungspflicht er- -rtert.