The change intervention within the social services involves several macro and mezzo factors, which encourage social workers to participate in change and adopt new practices within communities. In this case, the change process requires a logical sequence of actions, which can ensure that the community accepts the change and enhances its internal and external behavior. Therefore, the change process usually undertakes planning and analysis so that most social workers rely on the planned change process to excel in their initiatives.
While most communities are changing and evolving, the macro environment requires their broader perspectives on how to align internal culture and people’s beliefs with ongoing social or personal changes. From this perspective, the planned change process can utilize shared values and needs to show the importance of change and why it is vital for the community (Morosoli et al., 2019).
The macro-environment encourages the social worker to analyze external factors and their nature without an opportunity to intervene with them. As the social worker collaborates with an extended number of constituents within the macro environment, the company accepts the macro-level change becomes a complex process, where the social worker should define the best change intervention based on group or community peculiarities.
On the contrary, the mezzo environment addresses change intervention from local perspectives. In this case, shared values and needs are distributed among small communities, local groups, individuals (Morosoli et al., 2019). On the mezzo level, the social worker can affect the change process, as he or she determines why, how, and who is affected by the change and discovers intersections to encourage the change intervention.
From this perspective, the planned change process on macro and mezzo levels has similar features, which rely on shared values and needs of the selected social group. However, the difference in the process is determined by the social worker’s capabilities to affect the environment and how it can encourage constituents to join the process.
References
Morosoli, J. J., et al. (2019). Public understanding of behavioral genetics: integrating heuristic thinking, motivated reasoning and planned social change theories for better communication strategies. Behavior Genetics, 49(5), 469-477.