Educating Adolescent’s On Substance Abuse
Section 1: Significance & rationale
In this section, you will report on Steps 1 to 3.
Identify population group
Identify whether it is an organizational or community focused needs assessment
Provide a rationale for the needs assessmentSummarize your findings and describe what you think is most important about your results. How did these findings diverge from the existing literature ? What are the most important gaps or needs that you identified.
Section 2: Qualitative Methods
2a. Sample-In this section, you will report on Step 4.
Indicate sampling approach
Identify three project partners
Provide a rationale for their inclusion.
Indicate the steps you will take to recruit participants in this study ethically
2b. Data Collection/Interview Guide Construction- In this section, you will report
on Steps 5 & 6.
Describe your process for developing your interview questions
Present your interview questions.
Provide a brief rationale for the interview questions based on your literature
review. Citational evidence is expected.
2c. Data Analysis- In this section, you will report on Step 7.
Briefly discuss your analytic process for analyzing your interview data. This means your process of developing codes, categories, and themes. Provide examples of the codes and categories you used.
Section 3: Results In this section, you will report on Step 8.
Provide an overview of all 3 themes and describe each in detail
Provide examples from your recordings/interviews to support each theme.
Make sure to present data in the aggregate and conceal the participants’ identities.
Section 4: Discussion & Implications for Practice In this section, you will report
on Step 9.
Summarize your findings and describe what you think is most important about your results. How did these findings diverge from the existing literature ? What are the most important gaps or needs that you identified?
What are the implications for social work practice within the identified program? How should services change based on what you learned?
What are the limitations of your research, and how would you address these limitations in the future?
