Develop a group intervention program.
What will be an ideal response?
Scenario: The social services department in which you are employed at the medical hospital has identified a need for a new group in the community. The number of AIDS patients at the hospital has been increasing markedly in the past three years, and the social workers are being called upon to provide more support services to the families and friends of those patients. Of particular concern is that no special services exist for the adolescent relatives and friends of the hospital’s AIDS patients. Many teachers in the community have reported that these adolescents feel ostracized by their peers, confused about the implications of the disease for their own lives, and anxious about the unpredictable course of the condition in the lives of their parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, or friends.
Due to this perceived need, you have been asked to develop a time-limited (5- to 10-week) information and support group for adolescent family members or peers of people being treated for AIDS-related illnesses. The hospital wants to provide this service for free, but understands that some outside funding will eventually be necessary to continue the group if it proves to be successful. The challenge to your team of social workers is to design a group of this type. Your supervisors hope that the program will lend itself to evaluation. If it is shown to be effective for the adolescent participants, arguments for new funding can be presented to the United Way and other charitable organizations.
While you may know little about AIDS issues, or have limited group experience at this point, please speculate about the goals, leadership skills and strategies, topics, group tasks, and possible evaluation strategies that could be relevant to a group of this type. Assume that there is a list of 10 adolescents ready to be referred to the group once it is developed. Finally, one of your tasks is to recommend meeting space for the group outside the hospital.
This assignment also relies on the group proposal outline included in the chapter. And may be appropriate for students who do not have real-life examples to draw upon.
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