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This assignment provides the student with an opportunity to demonstrate their skill in using technology in Social Work practice to create, organize communicate, and store and retrieve practice related information.

Students will use http://tripod.com to create their own web pages

Here is the example of what your site should look like:
http://socialwork5.tripod.com/sowk355contemporarytheoriesandtherapies/

As a Group compile a web site of Contemporary Theories and Therapies, to include but not limited to the following:

1. Psychoanalysis - Perryman
2. Client-Centered Therapy - Hooks
3. Gestalt Therapy -Snead
4. Transactional Analysis -Williams
5. Reality Therapy -Barnett
6. Rational Therapy - Barnett
7. Behavior Therapy-Bailey
8. Sex Counseling Therapy- Smith
9. Neuro-Linguistic Programming-Perryman

Please use the following Format:

Therapy
Founder/s
Definition/Description
Therapeutic Goal
Treatment Techniques
Analysis, i.e. What is its "utility to social work practice"?

Include in your booklet an outline of the following treatment techniques using the above format.

1. Milieu Therapy - Snead
2. Psychodrama - Smith
3. Muscle Relaxation Approaches - Bailey
4. Parental Education/Effectiveness - Barnett
5 . Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis - Smith
6. Deep Breathing and Imagery Relaxation -Hooks
7. Biofeedback - Bailey
8. Play Therapy - Williams
9. Meditation - Perryman
10. Crisis Intervention - Williams
11. Task-Centered Practice - Barnett

References: Textbooks, Social Work Dictionary, Social Work Encyclopedia and other scholarly publications.

The purpose of this assignment is two-fold:

1). To promote a working knowledge of theories, therapies and therapeutic techniques and enable students to apply this
knowledge to treatment planning and intervention.

2). To have students participate in a group with an assigned mission and allow them to observe and evaluate group process and dynamics.

* One booklet will be passed in and make one copy for each group member. The group receives one grade for the project.

Addiditional information will be given in class.