Introductory Books on Personality Type

An enjoyable way to introduce middle and high school teens to temperament typing and to help them understand why people act the way they do.

Well-known author and psychologist Naomi Quenk gives valuable advise in this succinct guide designed for mental health practitioners needing quick, comprehensive instruction on the clinical application of the MBTI® instrument.

Written at the elementary school level, Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Best and Your Best is about how students might like to learn, think, and act.

Written for middle and junior high school students, this is a book about how students like to learn, think, and act. Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Strengths and Stretches can be used to help students better understand their MMTIC® results both in the classroom and at home.

This re-published version of Type Clarification: Finding the Fit includes advice on giving feedback, describing types, exploring type in different contexts, observing behavior, and investigating the implications of type dynamics and developement.

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop, using the Flex™ Leader's Guide, this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop, using the Flex™ Leader's Guide this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop using the Flex™ Leader's Guide, this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

When Isabel Myers created the MBTI® assessment it was her dream that people use type "for the constructive use of differences.

This funny, insightful book helps you understand yourself and others through type theory and the clever illustrations of the artist Ashleigh Brilliant.

This is an outstanding introduction to the inferior function - an often hidden part of our personalities that emerges most dramatically during times of stress, fatigue, and illness.

This edition of Introduction to Type® offers revised type descriptions in a new format to make the information more accessible.

This edition of Introduction to Type® offers revised type descriptions in a new format to make the information more accessible.

A booklet that provides career information for clients, with interactive exercises and realistic explanations of personality type and career matching.

Change affects people in many different ways. Introduction to Type and Change offers readers an understanding of how type preference can play a critical role in designing, implementing, and participating in change.

This practical type resource, designed as a planning tool and guide for anyone involved in employee development, is a comprehensive source of information about type and development that can be used with all members of an organizational team, including staff, management, or executives.

With today's emphasis on team-based and collaborative management and decision making, communication can make or break an organization.

This new booklet is for practitioners looking for a conflict management model that works in conjunction with type. Included are comprehensive conflict profiles that summarize how each type contributes positively to conflict situations, what generates conflict for them, what they need from others, how others perceive them, how they look under stress, what their blind spots are, and more.

Decisions, decisions—every day we are faced with opportunities that require choices. Fortunately personality type offers a way to guide us through the decision-making process—both our own and those around us.

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a term used to describe our ability to control impulses, show empathy, and persist in the face of obstacles with resilience and flexibility.

This unique booklet is for organizations that seek to apply the power of psychological type theory to help achieve continuous innovation, and for individuals who want to improve their potential through increased understanding of how the personality types approach the innovation process.

Introduction to Type® and Leadership offers a unique Leadership Map that helps leaders chart their own course to becoming even more effective.

We all learn in a variety of ways–some of us learn by seeing, some by listening, and some by doing. No matter what your learning preference, this insightful booklet will help you make the most of your learning opportunities.

Almost all our work can be framed in terms of a project, and at the core of these projects are the team and the leader who have to deliver a unique product or service.

Help individuals better understand how their MBTI results influence team involvement. This revised and expanded edition features new descriptions of the eight preferences and their influence in the workplace, along with an in-depth discussion of six core issues: communication, team culture, leadership, change, problem solving/conflict, resolution and stress.

Introduction to Type® and the 8 Jungian Functions goes beyond general descriptions of the 16 personality types to include the flexibility each personality type has with regard to the eight Jungian functions.

This booklet is for anyone who has taken the MBTI® instrument and wants to learn how psychological type can further influence and enhance their lives.

Prepare high school and college students for the rigorous academic and social aspects of university life. This booklet describes how a student's MBTI® type can affect learning styles, study habits, test taking, roommate and personal relationships, and stress in the college environment.

Provides MBTI® users in business and organizations with an introduction to Jung's typology in language appropriate for these settings.

The Introduction to Type® Library is wonderful reference for professionals who work with type and for students exploring the applications of the MBTI® instrument.

A popular introduction to type describing the preferences with styles of communication, relationships, work, and careers.

Written for both students and teachers, this book helps gain insight into personal learning styles in order to develop more effective study and test-taking strategies and help teachers facilitate learning.

Written for both students and teachers, this book helps people discover learning preferences and decide which tools and techniques will give the best results.

Are you excited by active expression of your spirituality, or are you more interested in opportunities for reflection upon the divine? Learn more about how these preferences can have a powerful impact on how you express your spirituality, common stumbling blocks to spirituality, and how your spirituality can grow deeper.

Are you excited by active expression of your spirituality, or are you more interested in opportunities for reflection upon the divine? Learn more about how these preferences can have a powerful impact on how you express your spirituality, common stumbling blocks to spirituality, and how your spirituality can grow deeper.

The crisp graphics of this revised edition bring a contemporary sparkle to this proven classic material that explains personality type with easy-to-understand illustrations and keywords.

A fundamental introduction to how an individual's psychological type affects daily interactions at work and can influence everyday workplace activities such as responding to conflict, work style, being part of a team, making decisions, dealing with change, and communication.

A fundamental introduction to how an individual's psychological type affects daily interactions at work and can influence everyday workplace activities such as responding to conflict, work style, being part of a team, making decisions, dealing with change, and communication.

The Looking at Type® series includes one each of Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals, Looking at Type® and Careers, Looking at Type® and Learning Styles, Looking at Type® and Spirituality, and Looking at Type® in the Workplace.

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment tool.

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment.

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment or the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® assessment.

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment tool.

The standard for MBTI® feedback in career counseling, this book describes how type is useful in career selection, linking type to interests, values, skills, decision making, and action planning.

The standard for MBTI® feedback in career counseling, this book describes how type is useful in career selection, linking type to interests, values, skills, decision making, and action planning.

A participant workbook is also available as a companion piece to the MBTI® Introduction DVD presentation. In addition to basic type information, it has descriptions for each of the 16 types that include short descriptions on Communication Style, Problem Solving and Stress, Values, Workplace Contribution, Leadership Qualities, and Team Spirit.

Includes a general introduction to type and the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® (MMTIC®) assessment. The development, administration, and scoring of the MMTIC assessment are explained, along with information on the reliability and validity of the instrument.

Janet Penley, author of The M.O.M.S.® Handbook, offers MotherStyles, a new inspirational tool to help every mother understand herself, break the myth of the ideal mother, and find the strength to develop her own style.

People’s behavior often seems randomly varied—but according to Carl G. Jung, behavior actually follows patterns. Jung called these patterns "psychological types," and he wrote extensively about these types.

This greatly expanded edition presents a more comprehensive approach to the four temperaments. In it, Keirsey continues to investigate personality differences that refine his temperament theory and define the facets of character that distinguish each of the four from another.

Jung reviews concepts of type in classical and medieval thought and in modern philosophy, poetry, aesthetics, psychopathology, and biography, and goes on to discuss his own epoch-shaping ideas.

In this new edition of Statistics and Measurement: An Introduction, Ray Zeissett offers a fresh approach to the study of statistical research with step-by-step instructions, practical definitions of key terms, and quizzes to test understanding.

A participant workbook is also available as a companion piece to The 4 Temperaments DVD presentation. In addition to basic type information, it has descriptions for each of the temperaments that include Pathways, Pitfalls, Leadership Style, Influencing Strategies, Learning Style, and Teaching Style.

An MBTI book with a dynamic explanation of psychological type and communication researched and crafted by leading type expert, Carloyn Zeisset.

Every student learns differently. The Chemistry of Personality is every teacher's invaluable guide to a powerful and simple method of understanding such diversity, exploring a positive approach to personality differences with their students, and using effective teaching methods that reach and engage every young mind.

Are you new to facilitating workshops using the concepts of personality type? This booklet will help you create and conduct engaging and effective training sessions that lead to success for you and your participants.

Author and artist Diane Farris uses innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo.

Author and artist Diane Farris uses innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo.

The original Looking at Type® presentation by Earle Page provides clear and entertaining situational graphics to introduce people to the concepts of psychological type.

Help your clients learn more about their MBTI® Step II results with this new booklet. The 27-page guide, designed for those who have just taken the Step II instrument, helps people gain a greater understanding of type through their facet results.

An updated introduction to Keirsey's temperament theory, which is based on the observation that throughout history human behavior has been repeatedly identified as consisting of four major patterns or configurations.

The author, a family therapist, makes the complex personality types of the MBTI® instrument accessible so that general readers can comprehend them, find their own type, and use the knowledge to enrich their lives.

Based on MBTI® personality type and the 20 underlying facets of the Step II instrument, You is full of tips and tools designed to help people become more personally and professionally effective.