As responsible leaders and managers, together we have the means to change our environment, to create healthy teams, to go beyond just the "What” and to focus on the “How”.  We in fact have the means of creating healthy individuals who are empowered to make meaningful genuine contributions to our community.  We have the power to transform and create the working cultures and environments we all dreamed of working in! 

Let’s look at how we are doing according to Bristol University.

• The average 25-year-old is up to 5 times more likely to be depressed as 50 years ago
• Adults are 28 times more likely to have been victims of violent crime as in 1953
• Medicating children has been on the rise since 1990
• Children are suffering unprecedented epidemic of behavioral problems
   

Dr. Tana Dineen author of “Manufacturing Victims,” skillfully takes the Psychology industry to task for:

• Destroying families
• Promoting hostile views of men and women
• Promoting distrust and suspicion
• Missing Science  

Dineen also references that "by 1995, 46% of the U.S. population had seen a mental health professional," who are consequently receiving these kind of results.

We have created an invented world of psychobabble, from paranoia to penis envy, and from ID to identity crisis to inferiority complex.  With a rise of over 200 contradictory therapies by 1990 we have been seduced by Spock to Skinner, to hypnotherapy to access a person’s questionable if not fabricated unremembered childhood abuse, or for some it is the healing of their "wounded inner child”.

In addition, we have created a plethora of over 3,000 assessment instruments from achievement, to intelligence, occupational, and personality.

Regrettably, there are many psychological assessments in extensive use that are accepted as being scientific.  The Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram are good examples which are often used in educational and corporate and business settings in pseudoscience and psychobabble and have been purported to be as about as much value as newspaper astrology.

So why, with all these approaches are there more behavioral problems, more reported accounts of depression and psychotherapeutic drugs taken in copious quantities?

Psychology has failed big-time and even Dr. Tina Dineen, who slams the psychological community with well argued criticism is weak on proposing positive solutions.

What is interesting especially in examining organizational culture is to keep in mind that people create the environment and the environment creates people.  Add to that, the traditional assessments and the very nature of how they are constructed are created as "events" rather than a part of a process.  These two major problems with assessments are then magnified by the lack of “what to do” about the identified problems.  

They do not measure the environment nor offer a comprehensive process of providing solutions to what they measure.