By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and generalist practices:
- Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
- C1.GP.C: Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and oral, written, and electronic communication.
- Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and oral, written, and electronic communication, through culturally responsive introductions; addressing confidentiality, informed consent, and limitations; reviewing purpose of session; summarizing session; and setting next meeting day and time.
- Demonstrate professionalism through addressing functional aspects of virtual environment through professional background/environment; eye contact or perceived eye contact; business casual or professional attire; adequate lighting; full head and upper shoulder area within video frame.
- C1.GP.C: Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and oral, written, and electronic communication.
- Competency 2: Engage in diversity and difference in practice.
- C2.GP.B: Present themselves as learners and engage clients and constituencies as experts of their own experiences.
- Apply and communicate understanding of the importance of diversity and difference in shaping life experiences into practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels through demonstrating ability to engage diversity and difference at all levels of social work practice by listening in a non-prejudicial, nonjudgmental manner; maintaining client's preferred gender pronouns; and exploring impact of intersectionality within client's life (spiritual, cultural, gender, ethnic, etc.).
- C2.GP.C: Apply self-awareness and self-regulation to manage the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse clients and constituencies.
- Present oneself as a learner and engage clients and constituencies as experts of their own experiences through demonstrating an attitude of learning and presuming clients are experts of their own experience by gaining client's view of problems; summarizing client statements to validate, understand, and maintain focus on client identified priorities; applying reflection, reframing, and confrontation; seeking clarification and exploring meaning of client issues; and creating a strengths-based context and presuming competence.
- C2.GP.B: Present themselves as learners and engage clients and constituencies as experts of their own experiences.
- Competency 6: Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- C6.GP.B: Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse clients and constituencies.
- Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse clients and constituencies through effective, culturally responsive engagement demonstrated by displaying undivided attention, not distracted; displaying genuine interest and empathy; demonstrating affect congruent to client's expressed needs and situation; self-regulation (calm, comfortable with minimally observable physiological distress); and congruent vocal tone, volume, intensity, and rhythm.
- C6.GP.B: Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse clients and constituencies.
- Competency 7: Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- C7.GP.A Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
- Collect and organize data and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies by exploring problems and sequences of interactions; and exploring frequency, intensity, and duration of identified behaviors.
- C7.GP.C Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
- Develop mutually agreed-upon intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies through active listening (paraphrasing, relevant open-ended questions, eliciting the client's story); probing questions; and addressing and managing conflict.
- C7.GP.A Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
- Competency 8: Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- C8.GP.A Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
- Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies, demonstrating ability to implement interventions to achieve practice goals by supporting client to establish one goal based on client need; developing a plan to attain and/or maintain goal achievement; and developing and applying intervention strategies contingent to the problem focus.
- C8.GP.E Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.
- Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals, demonstrating the ability to effectively engage in the process of practice relationship ending and follow-up by reviewing the termination process with the client; and developing a follow-up plan for the client.
- C8.GP.A Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
- Competency 9:Evaluate Practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- C9.GP.A Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes.
- Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes, demonstrating the ability to select methods to evaluate outcomes by identifying steps for goal achievement.
- C9.GP.A Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes.
Overview
This is the first of the four separate graded role-play sessions you will complete with the same participant/client selected in Week 6. For this second meeting, the social worker will demonstrate the following:
- Setting the meeting tone.
- Clarifying names to be used.
- Explaining the process for the meeting and its purpose.
- Explaining confidentiality.
- Explaining contract and releases of information.
- Asking clients about the problem.
- Closing the meeting.
The following are some skills you will want to focus on:
- Being an effective observer.
- Attending to clients.
- Listening.
- Expressing warmth.
- Empathy.
- Nonverbal behaviors (client and social worker).
- Paraphrasing.
- Reflecting.
- Summarizing.
- Clarifying.
- Questioning.
- Responding with immediacy.
The Biopsychosocialspiritual Assessment [PDF] document (also linked in the Week 9 assignment) is a great way to frame or provide a structure for the interaction.
Your instructor will use the Graded Role-Play 1: Assessment rubric to inform you about how you are progressing in the course. Although your instructor completes the evaluation, feedback will also incorporate peer feedback you receive in class.
Instructions
You must open this role-play assignment (as if you were submitting an assignment) and submit a comment in the text box that indicates you are completing the Assessment Role-Play (for example, "I completed the Assessment Role-Play."). This action creates a scoring opportunity for your instructor to provide feedback. If you do not submit this assignment (comment in text box in the courseroom), your instructor will not be able to evaluate your role-play.
Be sure to complete this step by 11:59 p.m. Central time on Thursday.