Group Proposal Paper

MAAC 512

ADCN 512

Group Proposal Paper Assignment Instructions

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to give you hands-on experience in planning a support, psycho-educational, or treatment type of addiction group. Examples of support/psycho-educational groups include drug education groups, substance use prevention, and alcohol and drug education traffic school groups. Examples of treatment groups would include an intensive outpatient group, relapse prevention aftercare group, etc. (For more information on psychoeducational groups, see the Gladding text).

Instructions

· The paper must be written in current APA format and be 10–14 pages, not including the title page, abstract and references.

· Sources must include the Gladding text, Wagner and Ingersoll text, and at least 1 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article published within the last five years.

· The Group Proposal Paper Template must be used and all headings in the template must be utilized. The template provides details for each area of the paper including Theory, Session Outlines, Screening and Problem Solving.

· Session Outlines in the template must be completed in the format provided. If you use questions, exercises or assigned homework, etc. from an outside source, you must cite the source or it is considered plagiarism.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

Save your paper as a Microsoft Word document, under your name and assignment title, (Example: Doe_J_Group_Proposal_Project). Submit your paper to Blackboard on Friday of the module it is due via the Group Proposal Paper DRAFT Assignment submission link provided in the module’s Assignments folder.

When you submit your assignment to SafeAssign, it will produce a “similarity” report within 24 hours. Students are responsible for checking their similarity reports within 24 hours and making any corrections needed prior to submitting the final paper.