The group design proposal assignment aims at consolidating the many crucial
points that need to be considered when planning a group that you would want to
submit either to your organization (agency, school, etc.) for approval or for you to
implement in your private practice. For this assignment you are required to
prepare a written proposal of a short-term group (eight sessions max) that you
deem of importance in terms of group provision of services. I would invite you to
reflect, situate yourself as a practitioner, and envision a group within the area of
your expertise and/or interest that you are interested in running.
Organization:
Make sure you include the steps that you considered crucial when designing your
group from the very inception of the group (why is it important to run it: important
gaps that you identified in the provision of services supported by lit), to the
planning (type of group-psycho-educational, counselling; selection of member,
session numbers and lengths, age, open/closed, advertising, consent (i.e. minors?)
etc.) and address the closing of the group (i.e., simple evaluation and/or
implementing outcome measures). Corey et al. in chapter 5 presents all the
important points in considering when designing a group.
Be creative and touch upon exercise (s)/activity that you may incorporate in the
different weeks that you run your group and that you think will contribute to foster
participant’s growth.
The length of your paper is 6 to 8 pages (maximum), double-spaced excluding the
title page and reference page. In his textbook, Corey et al., illustrate in chapter 10
and 11 a model of different group proposals. For example, you could follow “a high
school anger management” (pp. 137-138) as a template.
Please use APA style and include references used (i.e., peer-reviewed literature
that supports for example how the group contributes to current needs, etc.).