Your final paper is to develop a group plan for your area of emphasis: college, mental health or school. You are to develop either a psychoeducational or counseling group. The group you write about should be created specifically for this course, utilizing the group principles as outlined in your textbook and other readings. Groups you may have developed for other courses will not count for this assignment. Listed below in the course calander are the major topics that are to be addressed when proposing a group plan. Where there is overlap, a specific point only needs to be made once. Please refer to the Group Final Paper Rubric and Writing Rubric and the outline below for details on how to write your final paper.
Introduction
Brief overview of population, issues(s), setting, intended outcomes, theory/approach, and group structure
Literature review
Literature that supports your plan for working with this population, issue(s), and setting, using your intended theory and structure (5-6 sources related to your specific population, issue(s), and setting)
You may need to be creative in creating connections among these where none exist in the literature – we will discuss this point more in class
Group plan
Group goals/outcomes based on population, issue, and setting
Group structure
Psychoeducational – session-by-session plan
Counseling – overall goals/topics to be addressed
For both
Clearly tying goals to the structure
Clearly describing how you will start and terminate the process
Recruiting, screening, and informed consent
Include referenced to literature/texts to justify
Assessment and evaluation
Ongoing – process evaluation
At the end – outcome evaluation
Ethical and legal considerations
This can be a separate section, or woven throughout
Leadership
Particular competencies (content and process) needed by the leader
Plan to build competencies if not already there
Specific skill, strategies, techniques that will be particularly important
Not all basic skills need to be addressed – just ones that will be most important
Also include theory-specific strategies/skills
Working with individuals just out of rehab trying to stay sober – the plan is to keep them sober, learn how to live a sober life again
Challenges include – living in the same area, working the same job.
My age group is 18-24
10-12 sessions, meeting twice a week
Using person centered theory and CBT theory to run groups
An intake assessment before they join the group
An assessment after each session
I need an abstract attached laying out each group’s plan
