In social work with individual clients, an intervention that is effective for one person will not necessarily be effective for another. The same is true of group work techniques. Social workers who lead treatment groups must research and consider evidence-based interventions that support the specific characteristics and issues of the group members as well as the group’s purpose and focus. Social workers must also outline topics for the sessions that will guide discussion and facilitate achievement of treatment goals. The agenda topics must be logically sequenced. For example, if a social worker is leading a treatment group for breast cancer survivors, the social worker may want to first cover the cancer experience, grief, and loss, before moving on to healthy coping.
In this Assignment, you develop the intervention framework for your proposed group and include the sequenced topics you will address throughout treatment.
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
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WEEKLY RESOURCES
To Prepare
Review the Learning Resources on treatment group methods and interventions.
Conduct your own library search for articles on group interventions for the target population (i.e., people experiencing addiction or sexual assault trauma).
Review your Week 7 Assignment, in which you detailed the contract and orientation processes of your proposed treatment group. ATTACHED SEPARATELY.
Continue to draft your Treatment Group Proposal by focusing on the intervention framework.
By Day 7
Submit a 1- to 2-page paper covering the following section of your Treatment Group Proposal:
· Intervention Framework
· Describe the evidence-based practices and techniques to be used. Justify why the framework is appropriate for the target population and issue(s).
· Identify and justify topics you plan to cover over the course of the group treatment.
Use the Learning Resources and any relevant additional literature to support your paper. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
Rubric
SOCW_6121_Week8_Assignment_Rubric