...professionals in areas from research, theory development or practice. Exploring the attributes, consequences, implications and model cases of empowerment can assist the nursing professional in utilizing empowerment to its fullest potential. Within the scope of nursing, empowerment can be seen not purely as how it relates to the client, or the nurse but also how it relates to both the client and the nurse (Rodwell 1996). The Walker-Avant method was used to analyze this concept, as it was the most commonly seen in nursing literature (McEwen & Willis, 2007). Aim This paper’s aim is to clarify the concept of empowerment and its implications for the nursing profession, by exploring how it pertains to nursing as well as other disciplines, its essential attributes, antecedents, consequences and empirical referents. Definition What is empowerment, and what does it mean? American Heritage dictionary defines empowerment as “To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority” or “To equip or supply with an ability; enable”. Dictionary.com defines it as “to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means” or “to enable or permit”. Synonyms for empower include capacitate, entrust, permit and privilege according to Rogets Thesaurus. Understanding empowerment is a difficult task, it is better defined by its absence powerlessness, helplessness, hopelessness, alientation, victimization, subordination, oppression, paternalism, loss of control over one’s...
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...Lead by Example, Empower Other, and Vision Christine Bowman, Terrance Beard, Katharine Balich, Eduardo Barnet, Andrew Beasley Liberty University Lead by Example, Empower Other, and Vision Being a leader includes a variety of tasks and many responsibilities, not only for the organization and its product or service, but also for the employee. The leader is not on the job solely for ensuring that the workload progresses smoothly and meets deadlines, the leader is also on site to encourage and strengthen his or her employees when operations run efficiently or in crisis. Crisis defines the character of a leader, so it is necessary that the leader prepare themselves with necessary leadership skills. From large to small, leaders play a key role in forming and maintaining a level of change throughout an organization. The concepts discussed in this week’s discussion board...
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...as the empowerment of the students around me. The intrinsic value of empowerment extends far beyond knowing that you have helped a few individuals obtain confidence and courage within themselves. When you successfully empower an individual, the overall impact that you have on the community extends far beyond just two people....
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...And it will also likely be a lot of fun. So let's get started. If you want to build a better world: OWN YOURSELF. Recognize that you are a sovereign and unique Individual and make the decision to own yourself in spirit, mind and body. Become the owner of your life and destiny and take personal responsibility for them. This essential decision will guide your other decisions in life, re-orienting and re-creating your existence around the principle of personal sovereignty. Recognizing the sovereignty of other Individuals provides the foundation for ethical social interactions. Owning yourself and recognizing the sovereignty of others are both ongoing processes. BECOME POWERFUL. Creating a better world requires the efforts of powerful Individuals. You can contribute to the new population of powerful Individuals by starting with yourself. Empower yourself physically by getting optimum nutrition and exercising for strength, flexibility and endurance. Empower yourself mentally by learning critical and creative thinking skills. Learn how to learn and seek more knowledge. Empower yourself emotionally by learning to appreciate and increase your Emotional Intelligence and by adopting an attitude of practical optimism in which you hope for the best in situations because you are actively seeking and creating the best. Empower yourself...
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...Case Study | Describe ways in which care workers can empower Individuals (P3)Explain why it is important to take individual circumstances into account when planning care that will empower an individual, using relevant example from health and social care (P4)Discuss the extent to which individual circumstances can be taken into account when planning care that will empower them, using relevant examples from health and social care (M2)Assess the potential difficulties in taking individual circumstances into account when planning care that will empower an individual, making suggestions for improvement (D2) | Gemma | The staff could try empowering Gemma by: * Encouraging the child to use effort in producing work where praise is given this is getting the child to begin to be empowered. The school will support Gemma to empower her to cope with her emotions; such support enables them to see themselves as they are now highly competent. Examples of this could be, “You can do it! I believe in you”. Words of encouragement will make all the difference. * Hearing impairment will have difficulties to hear leading to noise distorted sound causing poor ill ears, this is why a hearing aid will benefit and help Gemma. The effects of this barrier to communication can cause difficulty on following what has been said. * Gemma may also be empowered through environmental barriers. This could be things such as lighting if poor quality prevents lip reading and other messages being picked up which...
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...increases an officer’s power. Section two of the Safe Streets Act is vague because it defines an aggressive manner as, “a manner that is likely to cause a reasonable person to be concerned for his or her safety or security.” This definition gives officers the authority to define what an aggressive manner is, and target particular groups because the term reasonable person is subject to interpretation. The act is an example of how the law can inadvertently reproduce marginalization due to the conception of equality and equity. The Safe Streets Act represents equality because it applies to all individuals in society. However, the act is not equitable because it affects certain groups more then others. For example, the social structures in society do not force rich individuals to panhandle in order to survive. Additionally, extremely poor individuals are depicted as dangerous....
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...active subjects, and the empowerment model builds from something rather than building from nothing (Bransford, 2011; Conger & Kanungo, 1988). The empowerment model can be used in various different fields in the helping profession for various different reasons, events, and situations. When groups are empowered, it effects them at all levels. When a groups is empowered, they empower themselves, micro level, the group empowers each other, mezzo level, and they can use what they learned to empower their communities, macro level. When groups are empower to overcome hardships that newly found empowerment can spread faster than the individual level within a short time than a whole community (Holcomb‐McCoy & Bryan, 2010; Bransford, 2010)....
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...volunteers including youth to get involved to help empower residents that are being affected. One of the youth programs in Massachusetts provides opportunities for researchers and youth to work together. The youth program organizes an event called Southeast Asian Water Festival and this program helps teens organize a project-based program. The Southeast Asian festival provides teens with hands on projects on environmental justice issues and provides opportunities to develop and create their own environmental activities (Race, Poverty, and the environment 2005/2006). The Youth Policy Institute is an organization in Pittsburgh that empowers communities to get involved. The youth group uses alternative approaches to get the information to a variety of communities. Environmental justice is a focus for the youth group. One year the group organized “Just Jam for Justice” which presented mixed CD’s with popular dance music to everyone that attended the festival. The inside lining of the CD had facts printed about diesel exhaust and the effects on local communities. The youth group used music as their way to get the information to other teens and empower them to get their families involved. Many brochures are thrown away without being read but the teens felt connecting with others with music would get other youth’s attention and inspire them to get involved. Tactics like this can work well and will inspire youth to empower their own families and...
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...forgotten completely. Empowerment is an important part of the human services profession and therefore the barriers that affect empowerment associated with human services need to be looked at and addressed. Barriers Within human services empowerment is a key aspect of helping individuals seeking help. Human services professionals work with individuals in need of help that the individual is unable to achieve on his or her own. Where human service professionals have an array of information and guidance available to him or her, clients that seek out assistance from human services professionals do not. This is where empowerment begins to take shape and where human services individuals start encountering barriers in the attempts of empowerment. Barriers become present in many different shapes and forms when empowerment is concerned. One of the biggest barriers that a human service professional encounters in regards to empowerment is resistance. When human services professionals begin helping individuals the human service professional works on the individual’s self-esteem and empowers the individual to become independent. Many times this empowerment is met with resistance caused by the fear that an individual has with the change that will occur. This resistance can be a large barrier in the way of empowerment for the client...
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...into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others”. This quite sufficiently describes what is, in my opinion, the new leadership. The way to describe how the old leadership differs from the new leadership can be summed up in one word: sustainable. Compared to the old leadership with a very rigid, tip down approach, the new leadership style is more sustainable and holistic, with power flow in all directions and flexible way of carrying out tasks and activities. The new leadership style weighs a lot on ethical and social responsibility. One of the most significant differences between the old and the new leadership styles is the way the relationships are forged. Relationship in old style leadership is characterized by a hierarchy, top-down relationship with great emphasis on power and control in the hand of the leader, where the leader has the utmost control and authority. Information is usually proprietary for the leader and is usually guarded, with very less flow from the leader to the followers. The leadership focus is to gain control and recognition of position, which usually involves tactics such as manipulation and fear. The new leadership mechanism is the complete opposite of it. The power structure is no longer a hierarchy, but resembles more of networks and communities, with each individual being a node in the network. The leader empowers the individual, both directly and through the network of the individual. Information is no longer guarded, but flows freely...
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...Streich Executive Management MBA5000 Professor Nwanne September 6th, 2013 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Leadership Model 4 Value and Vision 4 Direction and Alignment 6 Motivate and Empower 10 Learning and Change 13 Summary 16 References 17 Introduction: What is leadership? How do we know if we are a successful leader? Peter Drucker once asked, “What is it that all leaders have in common (O’Toole. 1999)?” Drucker simply answered his own question by stating, “All leaders have only one thing in common: followers” (O’Toole. 1999). He defined the prime role of a leader as “creating followers” (O’Toole. 1999). Leaders inspire and motivate people to take action, producing a change that strategically moves the organization forward. There are eleven generally agreed upon traits that leaders possess. These traits include self-confidence, trustworthiness, dominance, extroversion, assertiveness, emotional stability, enthusiasm, sense of humor, warmth, self-awareness, and a high tolerance for frustration (O’Toole. 1999). For several years now, a large number of newly published books have focused on various aspects of management (Pierce & Newstrom, 2011, pg.4). This has been a result of many individuals demanding information and analysis of how to properly manage and stay ahead of the competition through better management and leadership practices. There are many different management and leadership theories and practices currently being utilized and...
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...Students have tremendous potential to be ambassadors for change and lead meaningful action. What is the best way to educate, engage and empower youth to bring about positive change in the world? The best way to educate, engage and empower youth to bring positive change in the world is to sensitize them to real life scenarios such as cases, involvement in political discussions or debates and to make them participate in the world's current state in different disciplines such as economy, politics and social-cultural aspects. To achieve this through change, students must be able to lead others with meaningful actions using their creativity, charisma, and their sense of leadership to be able to resolve and help find solutions that senior employees have trouble figuring out. On the same note, student must have an open mind and be able to grow as individuals to become better people and to have the skills necessary to perform at their best in the "real" world. This being said, they must have the proper tools to develop their thinking skills and to comprehend the logistic of the current world we live in. So, to be able to have all the necessary skills, the best way to learn is on the field with other people who already have the experience and the knowledge of positive change. In other words, students should be formed correctly and partake in others in different projects and work to learn from other's mistakes and their success. Classes in universities or colleges would be recommended...
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...My abilities with incorporating CBT and the twelve steps model have assisted the individuals with their transition from addiction to freedom without drugs or alcohol. To assist the individuals with achieving this accomplishment, three categories of CBT was the primary focus, Situation, Thoughts and Beliefs in conjunctions with applying the principles of the twelve steps. Situation would assist the individuals with identifying how theirs response to Situation and environments, especially, recognizes the importance with applying theirs coping techniques. The individuals would acknowledge how their lack of coping techniques has prevented them from addressing the situation appropriately, where they would recognize the significance with applying the applications of the principles of the twelve steps during their encounters in whatever situations or environment that present its self. Also applying some aspects of the Systems approach to treatment would increase the individual’s insight and comprehensives of their subsystems that contributed to the situations and...
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...Association; Vilia M. Tarvydas, Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, The University of Iowa; Samuel T. Gladding, Department of Counseling, Wake Forest University. The authors wish to thank Jason Wilke for his assistance. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to David Kaplan, American Counseling Association, 5999 Stevenson Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304. E-mail: dkaplan@counseling.org Abstract With the promulgation of the 20/20 consensus definition of counseling, there is finally profession-wide clarity as to what it means to engage in professional counseling. This article describes the development and discusses the implications of the definition: Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals. The 20/20 consensus definition of counseling has been endorsed by 29 major counseling organizations. Keywords: counseling, definition, 20/20, consensus, professional identity 20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling: The New Consensus Definition of Counseling For well over half a decade, the counseling profession has been actively planning its future through the initiative 20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling. 20/20, as it is often referred to in abbreviated form, was cited as “the largest gathering of counseling organizations in history” (Kennedy, 2008, p. 42). Currently involving 31 participating organizations (a...
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...situation we are faced with the property leadership, aka power passing the blame onto the tenants aka the weak. Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is meant to empower the weak against the strong. Therefore, utilizing this theory can be exceptionally useful in taking action against the property...
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