SWK 530: Methods of Social Work Practice with Individuals & Families

1. SWK 530: Methods of Social Work Practice with Individuals&Families Presenter: Jennifer D. Street, LCSW Class Meeting Week Four

2. Welcome

3. Agenda • Announcements • Learning Goals • Resource of the Week • BiopsychosocialspiritualAssessment Form • Listening Role-Plays in pairs • Self-Disclosure Discussion • Knowledge and skills of engagement • Engagement Phase Role-Plays in pairs • Questions • Wrap-Up

4. Announcements • Start preparing your biopsychosocialspiritual assessment • If you are falling behind, please contact me personally

5. Learning Goals By the end of class today, students will be able to: • Understand the purpose of and be able to administer a client check-in and session rating scale • Make a professional judgment about self-disclosure • Demonstrate listening skills • Assess their own listening skills and identify areas for growth • Demonstrate Engagement Phase Skills • Assess their own level of engagement phase skills and identify areas for growth

6. Resource of the Week Client Check-In & Session Rating Scale

9. Biopsychosocialspiritual Assessment Form Due Week 9

10. Assessment Form • Diagnostic Summary • Clinical Profile (age, marital/family status, ethnicity, education, employment, substance use patterns, mental & physical health, prior txhx, referral source, other client specific info) • Precipitating Factors (why is client coming to tx NOW?) • C. Influencing Conditions (Issues that might have led to present situation ie: family hx (ACOA), developmental traumas & experiences, relationships issues, spiritual dilemmas, cultural, ethnic, gender specific influences) • D. Effects of Influencing Conditions (how is the problem manifested? Patterns of behavior, defense mechanisms) • E. Assets (client’s internal & external strengths ie: desire to avoid incarceration, desire to be good parent, sober support system, employment, positive family ties) • Clinical Problem List • The initial assessment process indicated that the following are the most immediateproblem areas to be addressed while in treatment: • Client-specific problem statement (in behavioral terms): • Client-specific problem statement (in behavioral terms):

11. Listening Skills

13. Listening SkillsRole Play In Pairs, ask your partner how their week has been and what was the most significant “take-away” from Chapter 4 for them. Switch and allow your partner to share Evaluate your own listening skills using the chart on page 120, Figure 4.2 Evaluate your partner’s skills based on the same chart Share results You have 15 minutes for this activity

14. Self-Disclosure?

15. Engagement Skills

16. Engagement Skills • Listening-5 types • Use of Silence • Empathy • Respect • Congruence (Genuineness & Authenticity) • Paraphrasing • Summarizing • Clarifying • Questioning

17. Engagement SkillsRole Play In Pairs, use the assigned case study to role play with a partner. Practice using skills of engagement and rapport building. 4 Minutes to read Case study 8 Minutes as Therapist Switch Other students gets 8 minutes to be therapist Then take 3 minutes to evaluate yourself per Figure 4.2 Chart on page 120 Then take 3 minutes to evaluate your partner on Figure 4.2 Chart Then use the last 4 minutes to share your evaluation with your partner

19. Questions?

20. Did we meet our learning goals??? By the end of class today, students will be able to: • Understand the purpose of and be able to administer a client check-in and session rating scale • Make a professional judgment about self-disclosure • Demonstrate listening skills • Assess their own listening skills and identify areas for growth • Demonstrate Engagement Phase Skills • Assess their own level of engagement phase skills and identify areas for growth

21. For Next Week… At this point, you should have completed everything from Modules 1-4. This week, complete: • Module 5

22. Have a great week!