2. Benevolent-authoritative or Parental Karta: Characterized with conditional caring & patronizing, who expects respect, obedience, who is fear inspiring, prescriptive, task-oriented and who maintains distance.
CP's constraint-oriented approach to problem solving poses a prescriptive modelling task very similar to that of OR.
He presents his approach as an enabling, non-prescriptive project.
Dr. Elaine LeVine, a psychologist in private practice in Las Cruces, N.M., and the chairman of the state psychological association's task force on prescriptive authority said, "We're not purporting to be physicians".
Aristotle begins neutrally enough, pledging to analyse "the art of poetic composition in general and its various species", but with item three on his agenda ("how plots should be constructed if the composition is to be an artistic success"), his task begins to become prescriptive.
We need to be descriptive before we can be prescriptive; No Child Left Behind falls short of the task.
Based on these insights a nonlinear pedagogy is proposed in which the role of coaches or trainers alters from a more traditional, prescriptive stance to the mode of manipulating key interacting task constraints including information, space and equipment to facilitate learning.
Yet such tasks are increasingly coming under the sway of prescriptive technologies based on what Franklin calls a production model.
The difficulty with these prescriptive publications is that they unintentionally mislead the practitioner into believing that the task of creating a logic model is as simple as completing a one-page table.
The issue of disentangling descriptive from prescriptive aspects in an analysis of the technical action and its constituents is therefore a task that has hardly begun.
As the acronym ROMEO suggests, group care requires reallocation of tasks, roles, and resources and a change in providers' attitudes from the traditional prescriptive approach to a more empathic role of facilitator.
