Support for Caregivers Assignment 11

Type of group(Group is such as a group for addicts, a group of people that get together to solve a problem): Support for Caregivers

Goal of the group: Balancing our lifestyles and caregiving in a healthy way. (Such as a college student having to take care of their ill family member, and having to balance their schoolwork and cargiving).

TASK GROUP AND INTERVENTION WITH GROUPS

This paper consists of an analysis of social work intervention with group as related to a specific social problem. Your group will also present a formal presentation to the class demonstrating your findings.

As a group, choose a social problem (illness, life occurrence, violence, poverty, loss, stress, aging, personal conflict, or social justice) as you are also reviewing in your HBSE courses. Upon choosing this problem, the group is to decide how the following might be best accomplished:

You are to design a group appropriate for generalist social work (Task, Activity, Social Action, Direct Practice, Self-Help, or Socio-educational) in recognition of this social problem and the problems associated with it.

Decide within your group how the following behaviors will occur.

Recruitment

Goal setting

Mutual Aid

Interdependence

Confidentiality

Research and define your Social Problem by developing a summary of library materials and journal articles related to the subject. Be prepared to present a well-developed overview (review of the literature) of your findings to the class.

Define your client group. Who may be involved? Who may utilize your group? Is this group appropriate for oppressed populations? What agencies may desire or implement this type of group? How is your group to be funded? Where will it be held? Who will facilitate? What ethical and value issues must be considered regarding this group? Include a plan for how the group will be evaluated.

Using the theoretical framework covered in class, analyze the dynamics you noted in your task group as you accomplished your tasks? What specifically were the dynamics related to: group structure, group climate, group cohesion, group communication, leadership functions and leadership style?

Identify and discuss the stages of group development, and how these progressed within your group (Preaffiliation, Power and Control, Intimacy, Differentiation, and Separation) as your group developed in the course of this semester.

Identify and discuss also the issues, which arose as related to: Gender, Age, Sexual Orientation, Ability, Class, Race or Multicultural Issues, including Rurality. How did these affect the progress of development in your group, the group dynamics?

H. Be prepared to make your formal presentation in class. Each group will be allowed to use a full class period for their presentation. You may be creative in your presentation, but it must be formal and organized. You will be allowed 1 class day for group meeting for this project.

Include a powerpoint presentation of the findings.

References: only use social work journal peer-reviewed articles.

ORDER CUSTOM, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument