Sub-standard 9.5: Ability to apply interviewing skills
Interviewing and counseling skills are extremely important for social workers to determine the genuine needs of a service user and set up effective care plans for intervention. According to Ahmed (2016), both counseling and interviews are invasive activities that need special care and professional ability throughout the social work relationship. A social worker, the service user, and occasionally the service user's support networks must all participate in an interview to get a complete picture of the client's condition. (Embimgbo,2019). The student found this to be thorough because the student applied interviewing skills to assess clients' needs and establish rapport encouraging the client to open up about their experiences.
In the micro intake report, the student demonstrated the ability to apply interviewing skills as she applied interviewing skills to assess, prob, show empathetic feelings, reflect, actively listen, to gather much information that can assist the student select an effective intervention strategy to use during the helping process. For evidence refer to the intake report (Heading number 5). The student used good communication skills during the interview and applied social work principles, roles, and values to conduct an effective interview
Sub-standard 9.6 Ability to record and disseminate social work research findings and knowledge.
This standard focuses on the ability of the student to show competence in providing a detailed assessment of the client information and be able to use relevant findings in the literature that support the claim. By using published academic literature to prove evidence of the claims she makes and references the author correctly using the in-text and reference list. The student made use of various research papers from Google Scholar to provide evidence where she used theory to prove that whatever she was saying is acknowledged and proved by experts in the field of social work.
The student provided an in-text reference and reference list in all reports she wrote to prove that the work she used in not hers but rather from different scholars that support studies in social work practice. As a result, the student demonstrated professional knowledge in acknowledging the marker that some of the work included in the report is taken from researchers' published papers as she provided the in-text and reference list.
References
Ahmed, S. (2016). Counseling skills and social work practice. The International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3 (4): 194-19
Embimgbo, S. O., 2019. Interviewing and Counseling as Social Work Tools: Social work in Nigeria, University of Nigeria Ltd