Role of Change Theory in Social Change

An understanding of change theory is critical to the success of human and social services professionals. A classic model of change theory consists of three phases: (a) unfreezing, (b) movement, and (c) refreezing (Lewin, 1951). Another model describes the differences between first- and second-order change and how first-order change may continue to perpetuate the very problems human services professionals seek to remedy (Watzlawick, Weakland, & Fisch, 1974). Developmental theory and systems theory may also be relevant to implementing change in human and social services related agencies and organizations.
As you develop your Capstone Project strategic plan, think about the element of change and how change might affect the change processes that will be associated with the agency, organization, or community for your strategic plan. Think of principles from relevant change theories and how you can implement those procedures to manage the individual and organizational change that may come about as a result of the strategic plan. Along with change theory and processes, you also should consider codes of ethics to guide you in addressing these issues.
References:
Lewin, K. (1951). Field theory in social science. New York, NY: Harper.
Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J. H., & Fisch, R. (1974). Change: Principles of problem formation and problem resolution. Oxford, England: W.W. Norton.
To prepare:
Select a change theory and the related change processes (e.g., force-field analysis, developmental theory, systems theory) that you might apply to address the issues related to the strategic plan for the agency, organization, or community you selected in Week 1 Discussion 2.
In addition, consider the ethical challenges that you might encounter and codes of ethics you might apply to address these challenges.
By Day 7
The Assignment (23 pages):
Briefly describe the issues you anticipate encountering in your strategic plan.
Explain the change you think is needed to address these issues and factors that might influence that change.
Describe a change theory and related change processes that may be applied to the issues related to your strategic plan.
Explain how you might apply the theory and processes.
Briefly explain two ethical principles, issues, or challenges that might arise in your efforts to apply these changes.
Explain how a professional code of ethics might advise in each case. Be specific, citing elements from an applicable code of ethics.
Explain the opportunities and challenges that you might encounter in fostering and implementing the change.

In-depth discussion and elaboration, which demonstrates critical thinking on the topic. Provides analysis and application of the assigned content and concepts and supports claims with specific evidence from the assigned content.

Answer the following prompt in an MLA academic paper.
The paper must:
have a clear and direct thesis
utilize in text citations of academic sources to support your position
be at least two pages in length
follow MLA formatting guidelines
Prompt:
Of the influential women we have studied, who were the most significant and influential and why?
Support your position with specific examples and academic sources. The paper must also reflect analysis of the assigned sources from the text and module.
MLA Essay (2)
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Thesis
The essay contains a thesis statement which is clearly stated and appropriately focused. The thesis directly states the purpose of the paper and the specific points which will be addressed.
threshold: 25.0 pts
25 pts
Meets Expectations
10 pts
Does Not Meet Expectations
25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
In depth Analysis
In-depth discussion and elaboration, which demonstrates critical thinking on the topic. Provides analysis and application of the assigned content and concepts and supports claims with specific evidence from the assigned content. Demonstrates knowledge is gained and applied to a new situation, and draws reasonable conclusions in ways that demonstrate comprehension. Generates an answer, approach, or solution through an effective synthesis of diverse sources and arguments and provide a rationale.
threshold: 25.0 pts
25 pts
Meets Expectations
10 pts
Does Not Meet Expectations
25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
MLA Citation
Follows MLA formatting. Information is logically organized. Sources are cited within the text, properly formatted and indicated on a Works Cited page.
threshold: 25.0 pts
25 pts
Meets Expectations
10 pts
Does Not Meet Expectations
25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Essay Organization
Content of the paper is logically organized and includes a introduction, supporting paragraphs and summative conclusion. All paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, concluding sentence with a transition.
threshold: 25.0 pts
25 pts
Meets Expectations
10 pts
Does Not Meet Expectations
25 pts
Total Points: 100

MY COMMENT: SHE KNOWS WHAT A PLAGARIZED PAPER LOOKS LIKE, PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS.

Describe someone who taught you to read or write and persuade me of this persons significance in your life as he or she relates to literacy.

As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Some of us have negative early experiences with reading and writing that have affected the ways we feel about reading and writing as adults. For others of us, reading and writing are treasured skills that come out of a childhood fascination with language and selfexpression. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply ingrained as good or bad without much thought from us as to how those views came to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy of reading and writing that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close selfexamination.
Topic Choices: please choose ONE of the following to write your essay on:
Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then persuade me of this event’s significance in your life.
Describe someone who taught you to read or write and persuade me of this persons significance in your life as he or she relates to literacy.
Identify a book or other text and persuade me of its significance for you in your reading and writing.
Describe an object and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development.
Key elements of this essay:
A welltold story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. Details can bring a narrative to life for readers by giving them vivid mental images of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of the world in which your story takes place.
Narratives significance. Make clear why the incident you narrate matters to you now by explaining its significance.
Well-organized. Whatever prompt you pick, please write a five-paragraph essay with an attention-grabbing introduction, a clear thesis, well-developed body paragraphs, and an effective conclusion. Remember the essay structures from ENG 111.
Use concrete, vivid descriptions and focus on a specific event.
Write 550-700 words, doublespaced, in 12 point font (Times New Roman). Any essay less than 550 words will not be graded and be given a zero.
Make sure to save your essay as a rich text format (.rtf) or Word document (.doc or .docx) when you submit it.

U.S. to 1876- Michael Permans Emancipation and Reconstruction

-600-700 words
-Each paragrph about 100 words
-NOT book reports, analysis of the books objectives and themes
-12pt font, double spaced, 1 inch margin

Heading:
Author’s name, title of the book (publsiher, year)
Example
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking the cold war (New York: Oxford Univeristy press, 1997)

Paragraph one: (Intro)
First paragraph should introduce the sibject matter of the book in an interesting andengaging manner. You should clearly state the author, title of the book/article and
thesis.

Paragraph 2-4: (Themes)
Identify and discuss three themes (one paragraph for each theme) and why you
believe it is important to the story.

Paragraph five:(Analysis)
Discuss what you believe the strength and weaknesses of the book are. For example the strengths could be the contribution of historical understanding, or the writing style. On the other hand, weaknesses could be complexity of terminology used or
lack of documentation.

Paragraph six:(conclusion)

Revsit authors thesis and discuss wheter or not you believe the contents of the
book were adequate to defend it(the thesis). If so, how? If not, why not?

SIgnature block

Yoour name should be right justified and placed and the end of the book review.

Johnny Doright
March 5, 1999

PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL REFLECTION AND SELF-ASSESSMENT

In no more than ONE paragraph, describe how dimensions of diversity (i.e., the
intersectionality of multiple factors) have shaped your life experiences, including your
experiences with exclusion, oppression, discrimination, marginalization, poverty, and
alienation as well as inclusion, privilege, power, access, and acclaim.

In no more than ONE paragraph, describe how your personal characteristics, values, and
experiences influenced your decision to pursue social work as a profession and the
problems, issues, and populations you are most interested in. (started but needs a lot of help)

First, carefully read and reflect on The Grand Challenges for Social Work that represent a
dynamic social agenda, focused on improving individual and family well-being, strengthening
the social fabric, and helping create a more just society (American Academy of Social Work and
Social Welfare). (http://grandchallengesforsocialwork.org/grand-challenges-initiative/).
Next, identify the Grand Challenge that is most aligned with your professional interests as a
social worker. Note that your interests and desired areas of specialization may align with
several Grand Challenges.
Now that you have identified at least one of the 12 Grand Challenges, you are asked to reflect
and think more specifically about your interests related to the Challenge(s) you selected and to
narrow the focus to a more specific problem or issue. Go to the Grand Challenges website
(http://grandchallengesforsocialwork.org/grand-challenges-initiative/) and click on the
Challenge(s) you selected to access a series of working papers that drill down further. After
carefully reading those papers, complete the next set of questions.

The subject I am interested in is military and addiction. I would like to work for the VA Hospital in Little Rock Arkansas.

1. Reflect on which aspect of the Grand Challenge(s) that you selected interests you and is
most likely to be an area around which your specialized practice as a professional social
worker will revolve. In no more than ONE paragraph, use information and readings from
the Grand Challenges website to specify and establish the social work problem or issue
that will be the focus of your professional practice. Cite the relevant references in your
discussion.

2. As it relates to the social work problem or issue you are interested in, identify and
describe an existing agency or organization that you would love to work in after
graduation. Also, identify and describe the position (real or ideal) you would hope to hold
in that agency and explain why. Please include a link to the agency in your response.

3. Briefly discuss what qualifications you would need to strengthen in order to obtain the
position you are interested in if you were you applying for it. Include any certifications
and how they would help strengthen your qualifications.

4. Again, as it relates to the position you are interested in, reflect on your practice
knowledge needs as they relate to your current ability to effectively engage, assess,
intervene, and evaluate within your intended specialized practice area. In no more than a
few sentences, indicate what about your specified social work problem or issue you need
to learn or understand better from an empirical knowledge (i.e., research evidence)
standpoint?

Note that the effectiveness practice question you formulate will be the basis for Assignments 2
and 3.

1. Practice Question #1 EXPERIENCE/MEANING (15 POINTS)
For example: How do ____________________ diagnosed with ____________________
perceive ____________________?
a) Your Practice Question:

b) Best Type of Evidence or Study Design for Answering the Practice Question:
Meta-analyses and systematic reviews
Experiments and replications of experiments
Quasi-experiments

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Correlational/observational studies
Qualitative studies; single case design; anecdotal case studies; surveys; and other
non/pre experiments (studies without comparison groups or pre-tests)
c) Best Search Terms:

2. Practice Question #2 RISK/CAUSE/ETIOLOGY (15 POINTS)
For example: Are ____________________ who have ____________________ at
____________________ risk for/of ____________________ compared with
____________________ with/without ____________________ ?
a) Your Practice Question:

b) Best Type of Evidence or Study Design for Answering the Practice Question:
Meta-analyses and systematic reviews
Experiments and replications of experiments
Quasi-experiments
Correlational/observational studies
Qualitative studies; single case design; anecdotal case studies; surveys; and other
non/pre experiments (studies without comparison groups or pre-tests)
c) Best Search Terms:

3. Practice Question #3 EXPECTATION/PREDICTION/PROGNOSIS (15 POINTS)
For example: Does ____________________ influence ____________________ in clients
who have ____________________ ?
a) Your Practice Question:

b) Best Type of Evidence or Study Design for Answering the Practice Question:
Meta-analyses and systematic reviews
Experiments and replications of experiments
Quasi-experiments
Correlational/observational studies
Qualitative studies; single case design; anecdotal case studies; surveys; and other
non/pre experiments (studies without comparison groups or pre-tests)
c) Best Search Terms:

4. Practice Question #4 EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTERVENTION, PROGRAM OR POLICY
(15 POINTS):
For example: In ____________________, what is the effect of ____________________
on ____________________ compared with ____________________ ?
a) Your Practice Question:

b) Best Type of Evidence or Study Design for Answering the Practice Question:
Meta-analyses and systematic reviews
Experiments and replications of experiments
Quasi-experiments
Correlational/observational studies
Qualitative studies; single case design; anecdotal case studies; surveys; and other
non/pre experiments (studies without comparison groups or pre-tests)
c) Best Search Terms:

References

Finally, provide a list of references for all materials referenced above in Parts 1 3 using
correct APA 7th edition formatting.

I will have to submit a self-assessment of each area with a grade also to my professor.

Sorry for the deadline to be so short but this is my first time using this site because I am having issues getting started on this paper.

Read picking cotton write a 2 page double spaced summary and reflection paper choose one of the main ideas presented in the book and locate a peer reviewed psychological research article from the library databases that relates to the main idea.

Read picking cotton write a 2 page double spaced summary and reflection paper choose one of the main ideas presented in the book and locate a peer reviewed psychological research article from the library databases that relates to the main idea.

Market plan outline

Final (Checkpoint) Project Assignment You are a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) recently hired to develop a new product line or brand extension for a companys product/brand (Note: students choose the company and brand/product). Based on the companys mission and goals, status in the market, current target market(s), and brand power, you will develop a Marketing Plan for the new product/brand extension.

*I already started the outline, just need help finishing it and doing more research*
*The company I chose was Ford*
*The product I came up with was a 360 camera that allows for recording*

The new product or brand should relate to the companys mission and target market(s), or to a lucrative new market segment.

provide a Table of Contents.

Direct quotes must be appropriately cited. Bullet-points are allowed, but should comprise a small portion of the entire document. The document must be written in narrative, 3rd-Person format, free of colloquial (casual) lingo.

Tables and figures are likely to be useful for this assignment. These should be placed in the Appendix (with a title for each one) and discussed in the appropriate section. When these are discussed, reference them in the text or body of your report, e.g., See the Appendix Table (title/name). The VP for Marketing needs to know all of the facts and findings that is explained clearly and extremely well (as if the VP does not know anything about your findings).

Your statements and findings must not only be clearly stated and logical but also supported by your research (with cited sources of information). Furthermore, all facts (other than common knowledge) must be cited in the text or body of the report and the informational source listed in the References section using APA style guidelines. A fact is more than just a number (e.g., statistic) but also a definitive/specific point, statement or information unknown to others, e.g., the VP, any reader of the report. Such facts and informational sources should include of course the organization, its retailers, competitors, current and potential customers, the Internet, Lynn Library (databases and hardcopy publications), and other personal interviews that are applicable to determining successful market research findings and developing a market assessment and analysis report.

Choose one of the key leaders listed below and describe his/her outstanding leadership qualities and achievements and the impact that he or she had on their society, as well as how that impact has influenced our present-day society.

Respond to one of the following options in a 2-4 page paper, written in APA Format. You must use at least two scholarly sources, as well as your textbook, to support your points in your paper. As you respond to the prompt, be sure to analyze how what you have learned has impacted your prior understanding of the topic. Make sure to integrate a biblical perspective of the topic, citing Scripture to support your thoughts.
Option 1: Choose one of the key leaders listed below and describe his/her outstanding leadership qualities and achievements and the impact that he or she had on their society, as well as how that impact has influenced our present-day society.
(Egypt): Hatshepsut orNefertiti
(New Chaldeans): Nebuchadnezzar
(Persians): Cyrus, Darius, orXerxes
Option 2: Compare and contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian society including social classes, government, and the roles of men and women.
Option 3: Using the biblical perspective from this session, discuss how the early civilizations are reflected in Scripture. Analyze how God used these cultures in the life of biblical characters.