Student Skills Inventory: Social Work Skills Lab Intensive 1
Student Name: Helen S Tanis
During the Intensive, you must demonstrate all the required behaviors from each Skills Category. Use this document to track, score, and describe those behaviors as you perform them. The other listed skills are highly encouraged but not required. These include skills that you may or may not have the opportunity to display, depending on your role in the Intensive’s sessions.
Instructions:
Checkmark Column: Place a check next to each skill as you demonstrate it in the Intensive. This column is your quick view of what you have completed.
Score Column: After checking off a skill, assess yourself on that skill using the following scale:
5 = Demonstrates a high level of competency
4 = Clearly demonstrates competency
3 = Demonstrates a minimum level of competency
2 = Demonstrates an inadequate level of competency
1 = Demonstrates no competency
Student Assessment Column: Then, record when and how you demonstrated the skill and any other relevant information to support your self-assessment.
* = Skills that are required
Example:
✓
Create a safe environment (setting up ground rules)*
4
In Day 1 Session 2, I developed group rules with input from group members. I attended to the needs of potentially introverted members by setting a ground rule that each person should participate according to their abilities and comfort level.
Diversity and Inclusion
✓
Skills to Demonstrate
Score
Student Assessment
Create an inclusive environment
3
In Day 1 Session 1 , Diversity and inclusion , I believe it was
Demonstrate sensitivity to accessibility
Demonstrate an openness to difference*
Demonstrate an ability to solicit information regarding an individual’s cultural and spiritual background*
Articulate resources to improve one’s own knowledge regarding diverse populations*
Group Facilitation
✓
Skills to Demonstrate
Score
Student Assessment
Create a safe environment*
Provide ve
al encouragement*
Provide nonve
al encouragement
Enlist feedback from group members
Address disruptive group members
Demonstrate the ability to effectively and professionally work within a group*
Close a meeting
Micro Skills
✓
Skills to Demonstrate
Score
Student Assessment
Nonve
ally attend to an individual’s situation*
Demonstrate open-ended questions*
Demonstrate the ability to assess client needs*
Gather specific information
Demonstrate paraphrasing*
Ask questions to uncover client strengths*
Convey client strengths
Demonstrate the ability to address a hostile individual
Demonstrate appropriate self-disclosure
Demonstrate a SOAP note*
Community
✓
Skills to Demonstrate
Score
Student Assessment
Demonstrate the ability to advocate with and for a population*
Demonstrate how to assess community needs*
Demonstrate an understanding of how to engage key stakeholders
Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand community resources*
Explain the role of a community organization within the context of the needs of a community
Professional Demeanor
✓
Skills to Demonstrate
Score
Student Assessment
Demonstrate appropriate dress*
Use professional language to convey ideas*
Use person-first language*
Show respect for colleagues through ve
al communication*
Show respect for colleagues through nonve
al communication*
Demonstrate understanding of social work concepts, values, and ethics*
Accept feedback in a positive manner*
Give feedback in a positive manner*
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