You are a school social worker at a middle school. Your supervisor has asked
you to do a group for 8th-grade students acting out in class.
Create a group experience that uses best practices in social work with groups.
1. Review the literature concerning groups in this age group
2. List and describe best practices for these sorts of groups.
3. Define how group members are added.
4. Describe the goals and objectives of the group.
5. Describe how the group will be conducted.
6. Describe how the group will be evaluated
7. Describe how you will use the evaluation to make changes to your intervention
8. Describe the fundamental statistical analyses you would apply to this project, using
a basic pretest, test, and post-test design.
You must have a literature review of at least five sources in either choice. You must write
in paragraph form and use APA format and citations. Your paper may use headers for each
area and must be a minimum of 10 double-spaced pages, not including a cover sheet and
reference list. This assignment addresses EPAS 4: Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice. It addresses the process of critical analysis to determine choices of
intervention and choices of items to be measured. It also addresses discovering relevant
information related to a specific issue related to cases. One other process addressed is the
application of knowledge derived from data to make changes in interventions.
