摘要：Objective: The purpose of this work is to test the efficiency of the group work designed to increase motivation of interns for finding job by sharing knowledge and skills towards reducing finding job anxiety and hopelessness of the department of social services interns. Method: Workgroup is formed of 7 interns from senior students of the department of social services in various universities that does an internship in the child welfare field. The efficiency of the session that consisted of 7 meetings is measured by applying Beck Hopelessness Scale and The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory of all participants before the first meeting and after the last meeting; thus applying for a pretest-posttest work. Research data is evaluated in SPSS Statistics 22.0 software. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test applied and collected feedback from participants through analyzing the data. Results: When the pretest and posttest scores of the Beck Hopelessness Scale and State-Trait Anxiety Scale which conducted before the first session and after the seventh session of the group work that is designed to reduce the job anxiety and hopelessness of the intern students studying in the social work department are analysed, no meaningful difference found. However; Considering the pretest and posttest scores of the group members, there was a significant decrease in anxiety and hopelessness levels. Conclusion: Even though there is not any remarkable difference in the level of finding job anxiety and hopelessness of the department of social services interns before and after the work, there is a significant decrease in anxiety and hopelessness scores of interns. This group work with social work department internship students will contribute to the field in terms of both being a social work practice with groups and being a vocational counselling practice for university students.
其他关键词：Social work, anxiety, hopelessness, job search, group work
