A transtheoretical model for assessing organizational change: A study of family service agencies' movement to time-limited therapy

This research examined how well a leading model of intentional change, the Transtheoretical Model, captures the dynamics of organizational change. Within a total population of family service agencies in the United States providing counseling, the stages, pros and cons, and processes of planned change to time-limited therapy (TLT) were assessed. Measurement development occurred in the design of staging, decisional balance, and processes measures for changing to TLT. A series of MANOVAs were run comparing groups representing five stages of change, Follow-up Tukey tests determined which specific stages differed from each other, Each of the study's dimensions was found to have systematic relationships predicted by the Transtheoretical Model of change.