Brief Description of the Family 
Jose Santiago, Jr: age 45, mixed raced, heterosexual, married male. Works at Automotive Plant. Married his high school sweetheart.  
Maria  Santiago: age 43, Latina female, Catholic. She works as a secretary at an elementary school and is very involved in her children’s lives such as being a baseball mom, , dance coach and married her high school sweetheart, Jose. 
Lorraine Santiago: age 89, mixed raced, heterosexual female. Has dementia and was a head cook. 
Jose Santiago, Sr.: age 91, Latina, heterosexual male, retired veteran who leg is amputated from war and has other ailments. 
Mercedes Santiago: age 21, mixed-raced, heterosexual female, college student who is involved in dancing and is a premed student  . 
Juan Santiago: age 3, Mixed-raced, heterosexual male. 
The family lives in a middle-class neighborhood where the schools are blocks away and there’s  limited resources. Jose job provides good health insurance and a decent wage, but long hours which makes it difficult to take care of his parents. The family always attended church together weekly on Sunday. 
Roles of the Group Members: To complete this assignment and the future assignments, each member will commit to completing the prompts or questions in the assignment; each member will choose their “part,” and email it to the leader in a timely manner. 
Communication methods: The group will be utilizing emails to send contents, and WhatsApp for group chatting. 
Timeline: 
Week 4 – Scope of the Issue 
Week 5 – Engagement and Assessment 
Week 6 – Evidenced Based Family interventions 
Week 7 – Advantages and Disadvantages of the interventions 
Week 8 – Recommendations for treatment 
Week 9 – Evaluation of treatment 
Week 10 – Final Project with References
SOCW 6121: Advanced Clinical Practice II
Group Wiki Project Guidelines
In SOCW 6121, students are required to participate in a Group Project. The purpose of
this project is for students to experience participating in a group. The task of the group
is two-fold:
1) Develop a Wiki that informs and educates on a family systems issue and
appropriate evidence-based interventions to address the issue.
2) Participate in and evaluate the group process while developing a Wiki.
This project is worth a total 50% of your final grade. The group Wiki is 25% of your
grade and each group member will receive the same grade for the Wiki. Members of the
group must hold each other accountable to create the assignment and to appropriately
and professionally work through any barriers or group challenges. The purpose of this
project is to produce a scholarly product to enhance the knowledge of family
interventions AND to provide an avenue to participate in and process a group
experience. The other 25% of the project grade comes from the Assignments that
assess Group Process, which are submitted and graded individually. These
Assignments provides an opportunity to apply the concepts of group process as you
engage in a task group. The Assignments should demonstrate application of course
material and critical thought.
Group Project
This Group Project requires peer collaboration, critical thinking, and ongoing research to
amass knowledge of an issue that you would be presented with when treating a family.
This final project encourages ongoing group investigation into a selected treatment
approach or model.
The 5000-7000 word Wiki should include the following elements:
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Description of the family system:
o Develop a case study of a family system starting with the basic description
assigned to your group. The case study needs to present identifying
characteristics of the family including gender, sexual orientation, race,
ethnicity, culture, socio-economic status, employment, ability, age,
religion. Your group is encouraged to consider diverse family types.
o Identify and discuss any problems that may be presented to the social
worker working with this family. Research the literature in developing your
case study to identify potential issues affecting this type.
•
Scope of the issue: Define the extent or scope of the issue by offering specific
current statistics of the broader issue. Explain which populations may be most
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affected and whether or not the family your group created for this project
matches the typical family addressing this issue.
•
Engagement and assessment: Describe techniques of how a social worker
would engage with this family and assess the presenting issue. Explain any
cultural factors that should be taken into account during engagement and
assessment. Provide scholarly evidence to support techniques.
•
Literature review of evidence-based family interventions that could be used for
this population: Using peer-reviewed journals, present research on at least 2
different interventions that could be used to address this issue with a family.
Make sure your articles are no more than 5 years old. A minimum of six
references are required for this section.
•
Advantages and disadvantages of the interventions: Critically assess the
advantages and disadvantages of each of the interventions your group
presented in your literature review. Make sure to take diversity and cultural into
consideration.
•
Recommendations for treatment: Recommend one of these evidenced-based
family interventions to treat this family. Discuss the theoretical orientation of the
theory behind the intervention, the major tenets of the intervention and the
strategy/techniques used. Explain why your group recommends this treatment.
•
Evaluation: Describe how a social worker could evaluate treatment outcomes for
this family to determine the effectiveness of the intervention.
•
References: Be sure to include a reference list and assign appropriate citations.
Project Milestones
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Week 1:
o Instructor will assign students into groups consisting of 3–4 students. Each
group will focus on one of the following issues and scenarios:
? Group A: Divorce—Family of 5 enter treatment because parents
announced they are getting divorced. Children are upset.
? Group B: Absent Parental Figure—Single parent raising 4 children.
? Group C: Balance of Work and Family—Family of 3 (parents and
child) concerned due to one parent who is unable to balance work
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and family demands.
Group D: Lack of Discipline—Single parent with two children.
Parent is unable to control one of the children who has been acting
out. That child is failing 9th grade and went joyriding in their
grandmother’s car.
Group E: Sandwich Generation—Family of 6 with one parent taking
care of declining grandparents.
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Week 3: A member of each group will submit a one-page timeline of your group’s
plan for developing the Wiki on a family. Include the following:
o A brief description of the family
o Roles/assignments for the group members
o Communication methods
o Timeline of each part being completed. The timeline should clearly indicate the
weekly objectives and goals.
•
Weeks 4-9: Groups are expected to collaborate on this project weekly. During this
time, you will be analyzing your group experience and will submit assignments
assessing group process. Your group is encouraged to use collaborative video
conferencing tools such as Collaborate Ultra, provided in the classroom, or Skype to
enhance your group process.
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Week 10: Group Wiki Project due
o The final project is a Wiki that informs the reader about an intervention with a family.
The Wiki needs to address each point outlined above. The wiki should be 5000-7000
words excluding references. This project is a collaboration of the group. The Wiki
should resemble a scholarly paper in structure; however, the Wiki software allows all
members to more easily share ideas and edit a paper together. The group shares the
responsibility of organizing and editing information. The group grade will be based on
criteria as outlined in Rubric in Course Information.
Assessment of Group Process
As part of the Group Wiki Project, each individual student is required to compete
assignments that chronicle the group dynamics of participating in this online Group
Project and applying material from the course to your group experience. The
assignments must discuss the group process as noted in Toseland and Rivas (2017).
Assignments should be well organized and presented in a scholarly manner, including
APA references. Assignments should demonstrate critical thought and ability to apply
course material to group experience.
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