Within This Essay I Plan to Focus on One Change I Wish to Make Within in Life. I Then Plan to Complete an Assessment and Form an Intervention Plan, I Hope to Then Be Able to Reflect on the Processes Involved and Discuss
Within this essay I plan to focus on one change I wish to make within in life. I then plan to complete an assessment and form an intervention plan, I hope to then be able to reflect on the processes involved and discuss the similarities and differences in supporting change for young people.
Change: To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one 's name; to change one 's opinion; to change the course of history. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/change
It’s not in till I looked at the changes I wish to make within my own life that I realised how complex change can be. One change which appears to be quite simple does in fact have several stages. I have chosen to focus on increasing my physical health, which can be broken down into 2 parts to make it easier to manage those being: • Exercise regularly • Maintain healthy diet
It is important to carry out an assessment of needs and potential risks involved; one way of doing this could be to use Force Field Analysis
Force Field Analysis was developed by Kurt Lewin, and can be used to show the forces for change as well as the forces against change thus helping you to be able to clearly see the positive reasons for making the change and the possibly issues that you may need to overcome.
Below is my force field analysis with the main change I wish to make and the 2 section that I have further broke it down to
The force field clearly shows other issues that I am facing that could need to be addressed as well in order for the change to be possible and permanent, such as low self esteem.
Clear targets/goals are needed in order to make change; one way of achieving this is to follow the acronym SMART. The table below explains the acronym and gives details of the goals I have set for myself.
|What is SMART?
Change: To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one 's name; to change one 's opinion; to change the course of history. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/change
It’s not in till I looked at the changes I wish to make within my own life that I realised how complex change can be. One change which appears to be quite simple does in fact have several stages. I have chosen to focus on increasing my physical health, which can be broken down into 2 parts to make it easier to manage those being: • Exercise regularly • Maintain healthy diet
It is important to carry out an assessment of needs and potential risks involved; one way of doing this could be to use Force Field Analysis
Force Field Analysis was developed by Kurt Lewin, and can be used to show the forces for change as well as the forces against change thus helping you to be able to clearly see the positive reasons for making the change and the possibly issues that you may need to overcome.
Below is my force field analysis with the main change I wish to make and the 2 section that I have further broke it down to
The force field clearly shows other issues that I am facing that could need to be addressed as well in order for the change to be possible and permanent, such as low self esteem.
Clear targets/goals are needed in order to make change; one way of achieving this is to follow the acronym SMART. The table below explains the acronym and gives details of the goals I have set for myself.
|What is SMART?
References: Cycle of change (Prochaska and DiClemente 2003) Cycle of Change picture taken form: