A Standards-based Inventory of Foundation Competencies in Social Work with Groups

Mark J. Macgowan

19 citations0/0 files storedResearch on Social Work Practice

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Social Work Education and Practice Psychometric Methodologies and Testing Health Education and Validation

Abstract

Objective: This article describes the development of a measure of foundation competencies in group work derived from the Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups. Developed by the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, the Standards have not been widely used. An instrument based on the Standards can help advance evidence-based teaching and practice. Methods: Items were drawn from the Standards yielding a 70-item inventory measuring two domains for each item: how important the item is for successful group work and how confident the respondent is about demonstrating the skill in practice. Psychometric testing involved 426 mostly students. Results: The alpha for both the importance and the confidence subscales was .98, with low standard errors of measurement. Developed directly from the Standards, the inventory had prima facie content validity, further supported by expert ratings. Significant correlations between the subscales and validators supported a range of validity analyses.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 19 citations exist upstream.

References

2001Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards 1987Psychological Testing 1998Review of the Counseling Self-Efficacy Literature 2015Psychological Testing 2019Handbook of Social Work with Groups 2008Clinical Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy 1999Research Self-Efficacy 2009Social workers' desk reference

Cited by

2016Group Work Education in Social Work: A Review of the Literature Reveals Possible Solutions 2016“That’s the Weight of Knowing”: Practitioner Skills and Impact When Delivering Psychoeducational Group Work for Women Who Have Experienced IPV 2017Social Work Students’ Experiences With Group Work in the Field Practicum 2015Has Group Work Education Lost Its Social Group Work Essence? A Content Analysis of MSW Course Syllabi in Search of Mutual Aid and Group Conflict Content 2015Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards 2013IASWG Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups: Development, Application, and Evolution

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.