Single-case designs in group work: Past applications, future directions.

Macgowan, Mark J.; Wong, Stephen E.

doi:10.1037/gdn0000003

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“…This study used an abbreviated MBD. The MBD is the most frequently used single-case design in group work (Macgowan & Wong, 2014), but it has not been used in the evaluation of teaching about social work with groups. The MBD is a controlled single-case design that evaluates an intervention by successively applying it across two or more independent baselines or clinical measures.…”

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Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards

Macgowan

Wong

2015

Research on Social Work Practice

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Objective: This is a replication of a study that examined the effects of teaching foundation competencies in group work to social work students and assessed their self-confidence in applying these skills. This study improves on the first by utilizing a controlled design. Method: Twenty-six master of social work students were taught group work competencies derived from the International Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups' (IASWG) Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups using didactic activities and micro-skill exercises. Students were assessed 4 times on their confidence in group work competencies using a validated 70-item inventory. Group work skills were divided into three blocks and taught successively in an abbreviated multiplebaseline design. Results: The t-tests indicated significant increases in confidence ratings after training on the respective skills but not before skills training. Conclusion: The results provide additional support for the effectiveness of the teaching approach in building student confidence in using IASWG Standards.

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Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards

Macgowan

Wong

2015

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…In this study an ABA single-case experimental design was applied, which includes two attempts to demonstrate an intervention effect. In this type of design, repeated measures are taken on a single participant or group under notreatment (A-baseline) and treatment conditions (B), and the subject or group serves as its own control (Macgowan & Wong, 2014).…”

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Evaluation report of Early Intervention Program in Situations of Youth-to-Parent Aggression: What happens one year after?

Astondoa¹,

Ibabe²,

Martínez³

et al. 2023

An. psicol.

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Introduction: The Early Intervention Program in Situations of Youth-to-Parent Aggression (EI-YPA) is the only program for incipient youth-to-parent aggression. It has a good level of protocolization and is open access. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the EI-YPA program on adolescents in the medium term, as well as the level of satisfaction and acceptability with respect to the subprogram aimed at adolescents. Methods: Among the participants who successfully completed the program, 22 adolescents (between 12 and 17 years old) and 49 parents participated in the study in Spain. A single-case experimental design was applied, allowing the monitoring of change within adolescents through comparison between phases (pre-, post-intervention, and follow-up at 6 months). Results: Empirical evidence favourable to the program was observed, showing reductions in youth-to-parent aggression, clinical symptoms (depressive symptoms, irrational beliefs, a lack of empathy, and emotional instability), and the perception of family conflict in the medium term after the intervention, alongside improved life satisfaction. Conclusions: This study improves the quality of the evidence of this pioneering program, having a positive impact on adolescents in the medium term and good acceptability by adolescents; it can thus be considered a very promising program for the clinical and family protection context. Introducción: El Programa de Intervención Precoz en Situaciones de Violencia Filio-Parental (IP-VFP) tiene un buen nivel de protocolización y es de acceso abierto. El objetivo principal de este estudio es evaluar el efecto del programa IP-VFP en los/as adolescentes a medio plazo. Métodos: Los/as participantes fueron 22 adolescentes (entre 12 y 17 años) y 49 padres-madres de familias españolas, que habían completado el programa. Se aplicó un diseño experimental de caso único, permitiendo realizar el seguimiento del cambio en los/as adolescentes mediante la comparación entre fases (pre, post-intervención y seguimiento a los 6 meses). Resultados. A medio plazo tras la intervención, se observó una disminución de la violencia filio-parental, de los síntomas clínicos (síntomas depresivos, creencias irracionales, inestabilidad emocional y falta de empatía), y de la percepción del conflicto familiar, así como un aumento de la satisfacción vital. Conclusiones: Este estudio aporta más evidencias de la calidad de este programa pionero, ya que se comprueba que tiene un impacto positivo en los/as adolescentes a medio plazo y que tiene una buena aceptabilidad por parte de ellos/as, por lo que puede considerarse un programa muy prometedor para el contexto clínico y de protección familiar.

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“…Most students in fact find generally that the evaluation courses they take in their academic programs are irrelevant to their actual work in the field after graduation and report when asked that systematic evaluations of client outcomes especially as reported by the clients are very rare in their actual employment situations and rarely found to be funded by their work sites (Groton & Gomory, 2021). Dr. Stephen E. Wong, one of the few social work academics who taught and did rigorous research on SSD (Wong, 2010;Macgowan & Wong, 2014;Wong & O'Driscoll, 2017) very recently had this to say regarding SDD's current status in social work: "Regarding single-subject designs: There has been a general decline in their usage, including by social workers who only used them very rarely and very briefly. So, I doubt you will find data to answer your question, since no one else bothered to ask it.…”

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Evaluating social work clinical practice in the real world

Gomory

2021

SzocSzem

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Roughly speaking there are at least 1.5 million and possibly over 2 million social workers in the world, many of whom work with individuals. This article focuses on one type of evaluation of social work practice, the evaluation of the outcome of help seeking for personal problems that is called clinical practice usually provided by social work case managers and therapists. The article primarily discusses Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) developed in the early 2000s. It is a formal structured approach utilizing two validated very brief measures employed during every client session that can be graphed and is designed to evaluate the client’s wellbeing and the worker’s intervention throughout the course of treatment. The article argues that this is the best way for social workers to assess whether or not the client is benefitting from their work as well as evaluating the approach of the helping professional even though this well studied and effective approach is almost nonexistent in social work either in Europe or the United States. We also discuss single subject design that is the mainstay of social work evaluation of clinical practice courses taught for decades even though it is almost never used in actual practice.

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Single-case designs in group work: Past applications, future directions.

Cited by 10 publications

References 70 publications

Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards

Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards

Evaluation report of Early Intervention Program in Situations of Youth-to-Parent Aggression: What happens one year after?

Evaluating social work clinical practice in the real world

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