Group Intervention Framework

Assignment: Group Intervention Framework

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.

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. 

· Continue to draft your Treatment Group Proposal by focusing on the intervention framework.

By Day Sunday

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.

Toseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (2017). An introduction to group work practice (8th ed.). Pearson.

· Chapter 9, “Treatment Groups: Foundation Methods” (pp. 264–294)

· Chapter 10, “Treatment Groups: Specialized Methods” (pp. 295–335)

· Vitual Book ( [email protected]) (Landon2019!)

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Ezhumalai, S., Muralidhar, D., Dhanasekarapandian R., & Nikketha, B. S. (2018). Group interventions. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 60, S514–S521. https://doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_42_18

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