Interventions to Individuals, Families and Groups
In this Assignment, please apply concepts learned related to providing interventions to individuals, families, and groups. You have been asked to look at specified populations and apply interventions that work for the respective at-risk population. In this paper, you are asked to justify interventions for specified groups as well as differentiate why specified populations respond the way they do to interventions. In this analysis it is also imperative to understand the delivery of interventions and examine skills the professional must possess to deliver the required intervention to the individual, family, or group.
Part 1
Examine two interventions for working with individuals; examine two interventions for working with families, and one intervention for working with groups. After this examination please differentiate between these interventions.
Part 2
Evaluate the success of interventions examined in Part 1.
Part 3
Choose a particular intervention examined in Part 1. Then assess the skills the professional must have in delivering this intervention. Also include in this assessment how values and ethics of the professional may enhance or negate some of the success of the intervention applied.
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Introduction
At-risk populations refers to populations representing the poor, homeless people, people with disabilities, the weak, those disadvantaged economically, illiterate people, those who have been abused, the minority in terms of race and ethnicity and people going through social risk factors such as isolation. Interventions to at-risk populations focusses on individuals, families or groups and may take various forms depending on their motive. Studies on interventions appropriate for individuals, families and groups of at-risk populations have been done and skills used by experts in these interventions determined.Some of these studies focus on improving the effectiveness of interventions and their results on at-risk populations. Cultural sensitivity of the interventions to individuals, families and groups should always be observed. Studies on the cost of the interventions determine their sustainability in the long-term and hence their viability. This paper evaluates various interventions involving individuals, families and groups of people belonging toat-risk populations (Shulman, 2012)………………………….words 1026