Basic Social Policy and Planning

VIBES (Values, Interests, Beliefs, Ethics, and Slants): Understanding where you and others are coming from and toward what destination you and they are heading

Systems theories and worldviews: Understanding how these affect planning

Logical analysis of all ways of thinking--scientific and experiential, bounded and nonbounded

Different approaches to planning--comprehensive rational analysis; disjointed incrementalism and satisficing; mixed scanning; strategic, decentralized, contingency, transactional, and advocacy planning

Global, strategic, tactical, and project management levels of planning

Needs assessment and participation of those who will be affected

Quantitative and economic planning approaches: Understanding basic ideology and assumptions

Quantitative and economic approaches--measurement, pricing, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, decision analysis