Using system differences to orchestrate change: a systems-guides intervention model |
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Authors: | Patricia A. O’Connor |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, The Sage Colleges, Troy, NY 12180, USA. oconnp@sage.edu |
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Abstract: | Successful community-based interventions require that change agents give attention to the complexities of interwoven systems, described in the literature as complicated or complex, purposeful or purposive. The author further notes the separate standards, norms, principles and/or goals (here-named systems-guides) of systems. This paper describes the author's experience as a consultant to a multi-system collaboration where observed tensions among participants resulted in the author's implementation of a three-step systems-guides model, which can increase change agents' effectiveness with systems. The steps comprise: detection (of systems, systems-guides, and discrepancies between them; here through observation); documentation (of discrepancies; here through small group discussions); dissemination (to systems participants; here to the collaboration). Two small but fundamental systems changes emerged from systems participants, not from the change agent/author who facilitated systems members' recognition of discrepancies. A major limitation in the implementation of this systems-guides model centers on the critical necessity of the close relationship change agents must have with the involved systems. |
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Keywords: | Systems change Foster care Change agent Systems consultation Community-based intervention |
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