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Project

Your final project entails reading specialized literature on group work with a senior population of your choosing, and problems faced by the population, and then preparing a paper about the group. Use the planning group proposal to illustrate how you would develop and conduct a group with which you have little or no experience. After the literature review, follow the planning a group outline below.

Be sure to include information from lecture and from the text for the course

Introductory paragraph explaining the group

0 Purpose: Purpose of the group (its goals)

1. Role of the sivorker in the group (e.g., chair, facilitator, therapist)

2. The first literature review on the social problem being addressed in the paper (This literature review should be 1-2 page-follow the literature review instructions below) This is an explanation of the problem the group is hoping to address (for example: what is depression, isolation, or grief this is problem that someone would come into the group needing support addressing)

3. The second literature review on the group work methods that have been used to address the social problem(This literature review should be 1-2 pages-follow the literature review instructions below)(for example, you may choose to use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy methods in your support group to help those living with depression, here you will explain what the methof you're using is and why you're using it)

4. Agency Sponsorship:

Agency name and mission-Choose an agency in the GTA that provides services to Older Adults Agency resources relevant to the group (i.e., physical facilities, financing, staff, etc.)

Agency geographic location (community, not address), sponsorship, demographic characteristics of clientele, type of staff, any other characteristics that might affect group

5. Membership: Target population for the group-who you would like to reach. Appropriateness of the population with respect to the agency mission and group purpose. (membership would be older adults, caregivers, family members of people with alzhiemers, bereaved persons or widows)

6. Recruitment: Method(s) for recruiting members. (how will you get people to join the group, referrals? Word of mouth?)

7. Composition: Criteria for including or excluding members. (what do members need to experience, be diagnosed with to join the group: for example, you may need to be diagnosed with depression to attend the depression support group)

8. What characteristics you would like group members to be heterogeneous on, and what characteristics homogeneous, and why.

Size: Open or closed membership.

Demographic characteristics important to group purpose

How will the expected composition affect interaction or group development? Include age, gender, ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, disability or any other special considerations that may affect the composition.

9. Norms and Roles: What are the most important group norms you would like to develop? (Our meetings will begin and end on time., We will listen to each other and not interrupt., We will make sure everyone has had a chance to speak.)

10. How will composition affect the norms or their development? Are there specific roles you would like members to develop within the group? If so, describe these roles.

11. Orientation: Whether potential members will be screened, and if so, how and for what characteristics. Preparation for group membership and roles (e.g., pre-group interview or letter, discussion at beginning of group).

12. Contract: Describe and justify the number of meetings, frequency, length, and times for meetings. If appropriate, depending on the type of group, describe the types of contracts with individual group members, or the group as a whole that you would try to foster.

13. Environment: Physical arrangements (room, space, materials, room set-up, other considerations. Financial arrangements (budget, expense, charges, income) and any special arrangements (child care, transportation, access for persons with physical handicaps, etc.).

14. Structure: How will the group conduct its work? (e.g., discussion group, arts-and-crafts, exercises, role plays, etc.). Will there be a structure for each group meeting? How will the structure help the group achieve its' goals.

Literature Review Outline

I. Introduction
The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. To establish the context, it is important to do the following in this opening paragraph:
a. Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.
b. Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.
c. State your inquiry question for this review.

Body
This section of your paper begins with an explanation of how you have organized your literature review and describes findings from articles that provide answers to your inquiry topic or question. Before you begin this section, be sure that you have sorted your articles into different themes based on the articles' findings (sometimes called results). After you sort your articles, it is important to give your sorted groups descriptive names. The names of the groupings will become your headings for each of the paragraphs that you write in the body of your review. To write the body of your literature review. it is important to include the following:

a. Write an introduction paragraph for the body of your review. This paragraph tells the reader specific information on how many articles you reviewed and how vou sorted the articles into common themes based on the findings (results).
b. This will be a paragraph that describes the first theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.
c. This will be a paragraph that describes the second theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.
d. This will be a paragraph that describes the third theme that you identified and compare, contrast and/or connect the articles you've selected.

3. Summary.
This is the last paragraph of your literature review. In this paragraph, it is important to sununarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and to point out the information that you found particularly important to know that answered the inquiry topic or question that you established in the first paragraph of your review. Try to conclude your paper by connecting your inquiry question back to the context of the general topic of study.

4. Appendix
This section should include a chart (format provided in class) that outlines all of the articles (studies) that you reviewed .and pertinent information about each.

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