Hi,
As part of the teaching on the masters in intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders at the Tizard Centre, Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Chartered Psychologist and Reader taught a seminar on organisation change. This focussed initially on Gelicher's Formula (Dissatisfaction x vision x first steps > resistance to change), although David Gleicher is an enconomist, it might be argued that his endevours are really within behavioural psychology?
The seminar then went on to teach about rationalist vs incrementalist approaches to change and the work of James Quinn (1986) with regard to initially creating awareness and commitment (need sensing, amplifying understanding / awareness, changing symbols, legitimising new view points, structured flexibility as well as the poliical aspects such as tactical shifts and broadening support), followed by solidification of the progress through creating pockets of commitment, focusing the organisation, managing coalitions, formalising commitment and eroding consensus.
This was to aid positive change for the individuals through working with the systemic. If i'm along the right lines then the area of positive behaviour support could be considered as community work that is psychological as it is an integration of a number of different influences to promote empowerment and positive change for the individual as well as systemically.
Kind Regards
Scott Bartle
Ps:
I've recently joined this group and have been really enjoying reading the debates and expanding my understanding of this area, so thank you.
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On 10 Jul 2013, at 06:41 AM, "Craig Newnes" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Abdullah, I'm doing my best to discover some community work that can be regarded as 'psychological.' So far - nada. C
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> I'm wondering how it would be useful (if at all possible) for community work to be separated into that which is psychological or political, my thinking is that it is both in theory and in practice. Or is this an ideology....
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