One of the many reasons social workers conduct needs assessment is to provide support for new programs. Social workers have many methods available to collect necessary data for a needs assessment. Soc

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Outlining a Logic Model

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Outlining a Logic Model

Practice-level Logic Model

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Anxiety is observed on the client due to the overwhelming feeling that she has developed during caregiving activities. For instance, family pressure from taking care of her kids and husband, as well as her mother-in-law has reduced her ability to meet and seek support from friends. Tiredness is also experienced from the tasks that she performs on a daily or weekly basis, increasing her problem. Interventions to be sought will be at an individual and group level. This is to address the client’s needs for mental health well-being that is to ensure successful outcomes.

Activities to take place in the support group sessions will increase awareness of anxiety, making the clients knowledge-able on the condition. This is imperative in ensuring the client adopts relaxation techniques during anxiety attacks. Counseling and therapy offered in the group activities ensure that the client is able to cope with the situation and share their experience for progress. Further, counseling will enable the client to structurally solve problems that are consistently overwhelming. This can be through conflict management, especially when making major decisions influencing positive thinking skills. The support group program activities are not only aimed at increasing mental health well-being but also increase communication strategies with family members on how to handle caregiving problems.

Program-level Logic Model

Decisions on Group Membership

The formation of the group will consider various aspects such as experiences and challenges that each group member has experienced. In addition, all group members ought to be undergoing anxiety disorder and require empowerment and motivation. Guidelines drafted on confidentiality have to be followed so as to ensure the privacy of each member. A confidentiality agreement will be signed by all group members to reinforce the guidelines. Ground rules for participation consider mandatory attendance to meetings and regular counseling. Also, issues to be discussed are to be laid out on the group rules. Consequences are expected to be given to members when ground rules are broken. A group facilitator will be utilized to moderate group activities during group meetings held twice a week. The facilitator will be an expert in medical health dealing with anxiety conditions.

Group Activities

Interactions with other group members increase sharing, motivation, and empowerment strategies. This is per the developed confidence as all members have a similar problem which they choose to share without limitations. Additionally, relationships formed during the interactions are imperative in condition acceptance. Building trust is essential in the group, thus the interaction activity improves how members open up. Shared challenges and experiences enable members to connect and learn from each other. Psycho-educational activities carried out by the group increase the ability of members to cope with the anxiety situation. For example, communication and problem-solving activities, as initiated by the facilitator, are imperative to manage overwhelming tasks at home. Also, positive thinking skills through activities can be imperative in increasing the members’ self-esteem.

Outcomes

Participation in group activities leads to outcomes impacting skills, attitudes, and behaviors, which are significant in functioning (Randolph, 2010). Short term outcomes expected from the members include honesty, openness, and motivation. This will increase the ability to communicate openly and develop trust amongst others. Medium-term outcome entails empowerment from group members to deal with anxiety. The empowerment plays a huge role in controlling how the member deals with overwhelming situations and when to seek help. Lon term outcomes are aimed at creating meaningful change in one’s life (Randolph, 2010). Reduction of anxiety tendencies and feelings are expected to take place from participation in the program. Additionally, the participants are also able to seek group support on instances of relapse as part of the program’s long-term outcomes expected.

Measuring Outcomes

Measuring the expected outcomes will involve monitoring the program’s success and its impacts on the members. As per the united way of America (1996), to fulfill the program mission, all activities have to produce the expected outcomes. This follows the inputs that each member contributed to the group. A relationship created between the activity and outcome has to exist (Randolph, 2010). Members are expected to have reduced instances of anxiety as well as the ability of members to seek group interventions on future anxiety attacks. Program success would be articulated by the participation of group activities by all members. Monitoring of the outcomes will also lead to evaluations for changes which will be more suitable to the group members. This will produce positive changes in the chain of outcomes.

References

Randolph, K. (2010). Conceptual research: Logic models. The handbook of social work research methods. SAGE publications.

United Way of America. (1996). Excerpts from measuring program outputs: a practical approach. Education reflection 47.