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E. Microskills Identification Assignment: Assessment & Planning (15%)
This is an individual assignment. I will provide a transcript of a social work interview in a process recording format. Using this format, you will identify the skills used by the social worker (in the middle column) and critique the skills used (in the right-hand column). In the critique column, please identify the strengths and limitations of the skills used, and provide alternate responses for any social work responses with significant limitations or problems (i.e., dysfunctional behaviors such as giving advice, being unclear, demonstrating disrespect, breaching a particular section of the NASW Code of Ethics, or not responding accurately to the client's content). At the end of the assessment interview, identify client strengths and diversity factors (social identity groups), and describe how the worker’s knowledge of these factors will inform future work with this client. Finally, describe a strategy for advocating for needed services for the client.
Evaluation Criteria: (a) accurate classification of skills demonstrated in the transcript, (b) accurate recognition of strengths and limitations of the skills demonstrated in the transcript, (c) demonstration of positive alternative worker responses to correct limitations and problems in the original interview, (d) accurate identification of client strengths; accurate identification of one of the client’s diversity factors (culture or social identity group), (e) ability to apply readings about the client’s diversity group to the situation portrayed in the assessment interview, and (f) logic, clarity, and feasibility of the treatment/intervention plan.