Social Work Practice IIInterview Analysis Assignment – Assignment #2
Interview Analysis Assignment – Assignment #2
Summary Page
This assignment is a follow-up to Assignment 1 in which you wrote a helping interview dialogue. For this assignment you are to analyze the interview written in Assignment 1 using two specific techniques: 1) The Carkhuff Empathic Understanding scale and 2) the list of types of helping skills. The purpose of this assignment is for you to develop an analytical perspective on what goes on in an interview and being able to identify what may or may not be helpful response to client statements.
Steps:
1) The Carkhuff Empathic Understanding Scale: [right margin]
a) Put an asterisk (*) in the right margin of your interview by each client statement that has either explicit or implicit feeling content. "Explicit" means the client used one of the feeling words (I'm really angry), while "implicit" means one can infer there are feelings present from what they said (My dog died).
b) Rate the worker's responses to each of these asterisked statements on the Level 1 to Level 5 scale that was discussed in class. Write these scores in the right margin next to the worker responses.
c) Use the attached form to summarize the distribution of worker response levels.
2) Helping Skills List: [left margin]
a) Using the numbered list of helping skills at the bottom of this page, put the appropriate number(s) in the left margin next to each of the worker's statements. Note that the numbers are just labels -- higher numbers do not mean "better" skills.
b) When you have scored each response, summarize your findings on the attached form.
3) Analysis:
a) Review the results of the two analysis techniques and reflect in writing what this tells you about your interview. Emphasize your assessment of skills and techniques -- avoid generalities. How do you see the connection between social work skills and social work values now, compared to when you wrote the dialogue?
b) Submit a paper copy of your scored interview, your completed summary page, and your written analysis.
Helping Skills List:
1) Simple attending responses 7) Reflecting client feelings
2) Paraphrasing 8) Identifying client strengths
3) Clarifying 9) Summarizing
4) Closed-ended questions 10) Reframing into new vision
5) Open-ended questions 11) Confronting discrepancies
6) Reflecting client words 12) Self-disclosure
Complete this page and submit with your scored interview
and your analysis of your skills/values
1) Carkhuff Scale: {right margin}
Number of "feelings-related" client comments in the entire interview: _______
Number of Level 1 responses: _______
Number of Level 2 responses: _______
Number of Level 3 responses: _______
Number of Level 4 responses: _______
Number of Level 5 responses: _______
2) Helping Skills -- Number of Occurences: {left margin}
1) Simple Attending Responses _______
2) Paraphrasing _______
3) Clarifying _______
4) Closed-ended questions _______
5) Open-ended questions _______
6) Reflecting client words _______
7) Reflecting client feelings _______
8) Identifying client strengths _______
9) Summarizing _______
10) Reframing into new vision _______
11) Confronting discrepancies _______
12) Self-disclosure _______
sowk 443 assignment 1
Dialogue Assignment XXXXXXXXXX1
DIALOGUE ASSIGNMENT
Dialogue Assignment XXXXXXXXXX2
Table of Contents
Overview of the Situation 3 ................................................................................................................
Dialogue between Social Worker and Client 3 ...................................................................................
Dialogue Analysis 5 ............................................................................................................................
Reference 6.........................................................................................................................................
Dialogue Assignment XXXXXXXXXX3
Overview of the Situation
A client named Roma; a 25-year-old Latin American origin comes to the mental health
clinic as she was suffering from sudden depression and anxiety which is affecting her
elationships and career. She was suggested to visit the mental health clinic by her board and care
operator, because of the recent problems that are reflected in her behavior. Hence, Roma needs to
consult a professional to assess her situation and recommend possible measures so that she
overcomes her suffering.
Dialogue between Social Worker and Client
Social Worker: “Hello, I am Greg. Welcome. ”
Roma: “I am Roma.”
Social Worker: “Yes, please say, how can I help you?”
Roma: “Okay, I guess I am here because I think I need some help. I look very normal from
outside but I am just a mess inside.”
Social Worker: “Sounds like you are in a pretty bad situation. I am glad you came here to seek
my help. Are you confused or having a kind of mixed feelings?”
Roma: “Yes, yes. I feel like something is bothering me. And just because of these weird feelings
I end up fighting with my friends and my partner.”
Social Worker: “Could you tell me more about this feeling?”
Roma: “I don’t know. I feel down and it seems I don’t have the energy to do anything.”
Dialogue Assignment XXXXXXXXXX4
Social Worker: “I feel that you are te
ibly in pain. There may be something that happened before
which might bother you.”
Roma: “I don’t know. I just want to get out of these weird feelings. I can’t sleep at night. ”
Social Worker: “It’s because you are suffering from insomnia due to over thinking. Tell me more
about your feelings. I bother about there might be some incidents that happened to you, which is
affecting your mental health condition now.”
Roma: “I have grown up alone in a
oken family.”
Social Worker: “So you have grown up in a shelter.”
Roma: “Yes.”
Social Worker: “Do you take drugs or anything of that sort?”
Roma: “No, I don’t.”
Social Worker: “Did you take drugs before,