GROUP FORMATION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN SECOND YEAR SOCIAL GROUP WORK FIELD WORK PRACTICE: A PILOT PROJECT IN PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, INITIATION AND EVALUATION IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
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Title
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GROUP FORMATION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN SECOND YEAR SOCIAL GROUP WORK FIELD WORK PRACTICE: A PILOT PROJECT IN PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, INITIATION AND EVALUATION IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
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Identifier
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AAI8023712
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identifier
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8023712
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Creator
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KATES, LENARD B.
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Contributor
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Harold Weissman | Eugene Shinn
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Date
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1980
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work
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Abstract
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Social work education for group work practice places emphasis on the simultaneity of the classroom and field work learning experiences. This is identified in the curriculum policy of The Council on Social Work Education, school policies, school norms, the expectations of group work teaching faculties, and the expectations of field work departments.;This project addressed the problem of group formation--the procedures and processes engaged in from the point of time of the decision to practice to the first group meeting. The project utilized a pre-assessment phase, planning phase, design phase, action phase, and program evaluation phase. It used newly developed curriculum program interventions embedded in an experimental design.;The project was carried out at the Adelphi University School of Social Work. Its social group work department maintains an educational policy requiring all second year M.S.W. students taking group method to have a first meeting by the sixth week of the semester. (This policy is also maintained by the field work department). All second year M.S.W. students taking group work voluntarily participated in the program's action and evaluation phases. Group work teaching faculty, field work department representatives, and an Associate Dean participated in all project phases.;Pre-project assessment discovered that 23% had group within the six week time frame; 52% started practice after the policy deadline; and 25% never practiced with groups. Syllabi review, literature search, and interviews with faculty and practitioner group work colleagues indicated that group formation was a significant problem, and that an organized and conceptualized methodology was not easily identifiable.;Program development included the creation of group formation curriculum methodology in the forms of: (A) Group Formation, Group Work Accounting Tool: Cumulative Practice Recording to stimulate group formation behavior in fieldwork, and: (B) the use of simulation role play teaching methodology to provide interpersonal support. In addition the project used general systems theory and competency-based educational theory in the assessment and design phases.;Program evaluation--utilizing static group comparison design--tested the hypothesis: Program interventions in the group work classroom setting focused on group formation knowledge, procedures, and processes would speed up the time it would take to have first group meetings in field work, and increase the number of groups in support of policy requirements. The findings were non-significant. Thereafter particular questions were examined and tested--these included: aspects of group formation time sequence; type of field work setting and field instructor behavior, participant activity. Essentially all findings were non-significant. One control question, the relationship of previous group practice to ability in group formation was significant; no matter how much previous experience, all performed equally.;Impressions gained from the project suggest that a group formation methodology ought to continue to be developed, that administrative (non-practice) constraints probably play an important part in hampering group formation efforts, that a further go-around ought either include the field work supervisory personnel and/or administrative personnel, and that more time should be devoted to group formation curriculum and problems in the group work classroom setting.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.S.W.
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Program
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Social Welfare
