Spring 2024 SOWK 487 Class 13 Weekly Email

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I hope you have all had a wonderful week. I’m looking forward to class this week.

Unit Introduction and What You Will Learn

Week 13 looks at activities done as a part of a social work group and how to facilitate them. The reading for this week is the second half of the report we read during week seven, and you can find the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (2014) Section 2 there. We spend time talking through some tips offered by the International Association for Social Work Groups. The agenda for the session is as follows.

  • Using Activities
  • Prevention Groups and Public Health Model
  • Examples of group exercises

Unit Assignments

Read/Watch

  • Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (2014) Section 2

A-01: Class Engagement and Attendance

Attend Class

A-02: Reading Engagement

A-02: Reading Engagement for Week 13 due before class via My Heritage Assignments

Unit Resources

During class we do a number of activities this week. You can see the Keys to Staying On Track, A Risk and Protective Factor Sculpture, Speed Hating: A Date with Discrimination activity descriptions and information.

All of the presentations for this class can be found at https://presentations.jacobrcampbell.com. This week’s slides are at Spring 2024 SOWK 487w Week 13: The How To’s of Running a Group.

You can find the recording of all of our classes in the lecture videos tab for this course.

Reference

Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. (2014). Circle of hope: A guide for conducting psychoeducational support groups (2nd ed.)., 111 pages. https://www.wcsap.org/sites/default/files/uploads/working_with_survivors/support_groups/Circle_of_Hope_2014.pdf

To-Do Lists

  • Read Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (2014) Section 2 and complete the reading engagement questions.
  • A-01: Class Engagement and Attendance Attend class
  • A-05: Research Paper to Inform Group Practice if you haven’t started yet, you should be working on this over the next couple of weeks.

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