Evidence-Based Group Work in Community Settings

ISBN-13: 9780789038517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 196 str.

David E. Pollio; Mark Macgowan

Opis

This text describes efforts to integrate evidence into community settings, which have two foci. The first part details group models developed through coactions between researchers and community agencies. The second part deals with issues around instruction and dissemination of evidence-based group work into practice settings.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. REAL Groups: The Design and Immediate Effects of a Prevention Intervention for Latino Children  Flavio F. Marsiglia, Verónica Peña, Tanya Nieri, and Julie L. Nagoshi  3. Implementing Evidence-Based Multiple-Family Groups with Adolescent Substance Abusers  Douglas C. Smith PhD and James A. Hall PhD  4. "I'm not lazy, it’s just that I learn differently": Development and implementation of a manualized school-based group for students with LD"  Faye Mishna, PhD, Barbara Muskat, PhD and Judith Wiener, PhD  5. Releasing the Steam: An Evaluation of the Supporting Tempers, Emotions, and Anger Management (STEAM) program for Elementary and Adolescent Aged Children  Bruce A. Bidgood, PhD, Heather Wilkie, BSc and Annette Katchaluba, MSW  6. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Building Social Skills in Group, School, and Community Settings  Amie Williams, PhD and Laura Grofer Klinger  7. The andragogy of evidence-based group work: An integrated educational model  David E. Pollio and Mark J. Macgowan  8. Finding and Integrating the Best Available Evidence into the Group Work Field Practicum: Examples and Experiences from M.S.W. Students  Mark J. Macgowan  9. "We may not like it but we guess we have to do it": Bringing Agency-Based Staff on Board with Evidence-Based Group Work  Barbara Muskat, PhD, RSW, Faye Mishna, PhD, RSW, Fataneh Farnia, PhD and Judith Wiener, PhD  10. Teaching Evidence-Based Practice to Administrative Groups: The Professional Academy of Evidence-Based Practice  Stephanie Krauss, M.Ed and Barbara Levin  11. Motivating Clients in Treatment Groups  Sheldon D. Rose and Heesuk Chang

O autorze

David E. Pollio, LCSW PhD, is the Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair and Director of Research at the University of Alabama School of Social Work. He has more than 25 years experience as a group work provider and researcher for adolescent and adult populations.

Mark J. Macgowan, LCSW, PhD, is with the School of Social Work at Florida International University in Miami and is Associate Director of the University’s Community-Based Intervention Research Group. He has twenty-five years of group work practice and research experience, primarily with adolescents and with culturally-diverse populations.