1st Edition
Evidence-Based Group Work in Community Settings
There has been a strong recent trend towards incorporating evidence into Social Work practice in general, and into group work in particular. This trend has focused on the education of students in the use of evidence, development of evidence-based interventions, and discussion of how evidence can be used to improve practice. A limitation of most of this literature is that it has been written by researchers for the consumption of practitioners, limiting the ability of evidence-based practices to be incorporated into unique community settings and with specific populations. In spite of this difficulty, implementation of evidence-based practices continues quietly in practice settings.
This book describes efforts to integrate evidence into community settings, which have two foci. The first part details group models developed through collaborations between researchers and community agencies. Each chapter details efforts to implement, research, or review programs in community settings. The second part deals with issues around instruction and dissemination of evidence-based group work into practice settings. The volume makes a significant contribution to the discussion about evidence-based group work.
This book was published as a special issue of Social Work with Groups.
1. Introduction
2. REAL Groups: The Design and Immediate Effects of a Prevention Intervention for Latino Children Flavio F. Marsiglia,1 Verónica Peña,1 Tanya Nieri,2 and Julie L. Nagoshi1 (1Arizona State University, 2University of California, Riverside)
3. Implementing Evidence-Based Multiple-Family Groups with Adolescent Substance Abusers Douglas C. Smith PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and James A. Hall PhD (University of Alabama)
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 (Professor & Associate Dean of Research, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family, University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work), Barbara Muskat, PhD (Academic and Clinical Specialist, The Hospital for Sick Children) & Judith Wiener, PhD (Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto)
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 (Social Work Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada), Heather Wilkie, BSc (Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) & Annette Katchaluba, MSW (Kitchener-Waterloo Family & Children’s Services, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
6. Autism Spectrum Disorders: Building Social Skills in Group, School, and Community Settings Amie Williams, PhD (Kelly O’Leary Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) & Laura Grofer Klinger
7. The andragogy of evidence-based group work: An integrated educational model David E. Pollio (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) & Mark J. Macgowan (Florida International University, Miami)
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 (Florida International University, Miami)
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 (The Hospital for Sick Children), Faye Mishna, PhD, RSW (Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work & University of Toronto), Fataneh Farnia, PhD (OISE/University of Toronto) & Judith Wiener, PhD (OISE/University of Toronto)
10. Teaching Evidence-Based Practice to Administrative Groups: The Professional Academy of Evidence-Based Practice Stephanie Krauss, M.Ed (Shearwater Education Foundation) & Barbara Levin (George Warren Brown School of Social Work, St. Louis, Missouri)
11. Motivating Clients in Treatment Groups Sheldon D. Rose & Heesuk Chang
Biography
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.
