Client System Role Play Reflection
As a Therapeutic Staff Support, I communicate with my clients and their families daily. I had the opportunity to sit down on an evaluation with one of my clients. I am comfortable talking with my clients, but I did convey some nervousness in the video. This role play has taught me more about myself. There have been some challenges in planning and executing this role play. My role play displayed the initial interaction between a concerned mother and the social worker. In an initial meeting with behavioral health services, it is important for the client to be there. However, I did not have another person to play the part of Sophia, so I made due with just the mother and social worker. Overall, I feel that this
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K., & Hull, G. H., Jr., 2018). The initial meeting can make or break a worker-client relationship. It is important to be prepared and show the client that you are there to listen and help them with whatever they may need. The engagement step requires the social worker to utilize both, verbal and nonverbal skills, to build rapport. Also, it is important for the social worker to state their purpose and role (Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr., 2018). In this role play, I did not tell the client my purpose or role. I should have stated my name along with my title, social worker. Also, I would have mentioned that my duties were to do the intake and design and create treatment plans with goals and interventions detailed to the specific client needs. I need to be more aware of my nonverbal behavior. There was eye contact made between the client and me. However, I did scratch my arm and my side which is a tell of my nervousness. If I were to do that in an initial meeting, the client may notice, and it might seem that I do not want to be there. It is important to be aware of your body movements, which includes knowing what is acceptable to different …show more content…
Making eye contact is an important part of the engagement skills, which was adhered. I did make facial expressions during the role play. I smiled along with client what she made a joke and I showed a concerned face when discussion Sophia’s behaviors. During the role play, I leaned in a little bit towards the client to let her know that she had my full attention. Warmth, empathy, and genuineness are all great communication skills to convey (Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr., 2018). I displayed warmth in the role play by smiling at the client when acceptable. Genuineness was conveyed through making eye contact and showing concern for her daughter’s behaviors in the home and school. I missed empathy during the role play. I should have utilized reflective listening by repeating what was going on with Sophia’s behaviors in the home and school. After understanding the whole picture, I should have went on with the hours that were going to be prescribed for Sophia and the plan. Having the client discuss their strengths would be a great step in building rapport with the client. I failed to discuss Sophia’s strengths during the role play. Showing concern for a client’s behaviors will convey a sense of genuineness that you do care for the client and want to
I have seen the nursing process being used within my practice. The society that I go to for my clinical evaluations and regular charting for every resident in the house. They identity daily, short-term, and long-term goals. Every resident has a chart that the need to fill out, by doing this it allows the residents have some accountability on their part of the goals. In addition, the nurses also observe that the residents progress, these observations are done throughout the day and charted daily. Being in the practice setting for a few weeks now, I’ve had the opportunity to use nursing processes with a few residents. I worked with a resident to help them understand and communicate with the staff members about how this resident was feeling. I worked with this resident to prepare and brainstorm ways that they could approach and deal with the issue. Helping them understand that feeling
The process of running a group therapy session is a unique time to tests a person’s skills abilities when it comes to facilitating that group. This paper will mainly look at ways when it comes to my learning's of this class that I took ways; I will also show examples and skills to run a good group therapy session. This whole paper is a reflection of the many things that I took was on being an active group counselor facilitator.
This first topic will be a reflection of content that has been applied to and the strengths of the roleplay. The very start of the therapy process from the point to meeting a client is very important to engage the therapeutic alliance (Wener, et al., 2015, p. 312). A way to start engaging with the alliance is by presenting an open and respectful manner to the client, during the role play this initial phrase was
My goals for the session were to introduce myself to the client, understand the client’s concerns, learn her background and current situation for several areas relevant to her life and her concerns, such as medical, family, legal, educational, and vocational. I
As social workers, it is our responsibility to use the most effective method of practice to engage our clients, assess their situation, and help them create goals that will produce positive outcomes. Every client will present a unique set of challenges; therefore, the social worker must be careful in choosing an approach that will meet the client’s needs, compliment the skills of the therapist and are in line with the agency’s mission. According to Robert and Watkins (2009), psychotherapy is a therapeutic interaction between a trained therapist and a client that is
Trainees will demonstrate their ability to individually observe another group’s role play interview and verbally identify two good
Due to Marks very depressed state, the initial interaction required a great deal of empathy and high degrees of compassion. When first engaging a client, it is important to be compassionate and empathetic and listen without interrupting, prompting or advising (Berg-Weger, 2013). Reflecting and summarizing content delivered in the session is a valuable way to let the client know that you are actively listening to what they are saying
The following paper will examine the role-play intake interview that was posted on YouTube as a learning tool by Dr. Todd L. Grande. The information from this interview is gathered by observing the videos and class discussion, which is then written in a psychosocial assessment of the client. The assessment includes current concerns, family history, and next steps/goals for the client.
Prior to engaging with Ms X for the commencement of work, it is necessary to 'tune in ' to the case circumstances applying a holistic approach to gain as much insight to the service user(s) as possible before contact is made. Douglas (2008) states that "the pre-contact phase which helps to prepare the social work student for face-to face intervention, is a prerequisite for effective practice". With this in mind, I took the opportunity to contact the designated social worker assigned to this family to arrange a one-to-one meeting to allow for more information sharing. This meeting proved to be positive and it allowed me to gather more insight to this case from the observations and findings from another individual. However I must be sceptic in these circumstances and not take all information as face value. Referring to the conceptual model (...), each
Client was able to reflect the right feelings using her body language and facial features during the game. Client was able to find a suitable solution for her feelings of frustration working in a group by saying, "Next time we will do better." When therapist asked client during the game what her first three thoughts would be if her teacher said "I'm going to call your parents," client reported, "I would ask why, then say I didn't do anything, then tell my teacher that my mom is at work and can't talk." When the client pulled a game card asking when was the last time she talked back, client reported the last time she talked back was when her foster mom refused to let her play outside. When therapist gave client emotions board to identify the three emotions she felt during the session, client reported that she feels joy because she likes the new board game, happy because we plan to talk about controlling anger next session, and surprised because of the new therapist. Therapist praised the client and her thoughts and behavior and client was happy with therapist
In particular, there were certain interventions that I was happy with. Throughout the session I believe I conveyed empathy and was actively listening to the client. I was paying attention to her and, especially at emotional stories, I was empathetic to her feelings. I was also happy with how the negative thoughts activity went during the session. First, asking
I always seem to become anxious when it comes to role playing. This time was no different. In fact I was a bit more anxious as I was being graded for this assignment. When I first read the project I felt this was not to difficult. I pick a scenario, grab a few people to act, and “boom” I am done. In addition, I thought to myself I do this work on a day in and day basis so it will not be that hard. However, it was a lot more challenging than I anticipated. In the work that I do (Community Based Interventionist) I interact with youth and families everyday and in those interactions I am constantly using empathy, eye contact, warmth, and genuineness (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2015). However, I have never taken notice to using them. In addition,
Figure 1 illustrates the level of anxiety that Crystal felt during the role play session. On day one showed the baseline scores of 9. However as the days went by, Crystal displayed a decreased in anxiety after implementing the intervention. During intervention phase, both myself and Crystal continue to play the roles of interviewer and interviewee. This allowed for Crystal to identify her thought process during interviews and see how it impacted her behavior. This led her to use more alternative thoughts such as “I can do this,” “I will got this job” and “I will not fail,” which allowed her to change her behavior. She became calm and seem more confidence in answering questions. Crystal‘s level of confidence is shown in figure 2. She was able to examine her responses after enacting the mock-scene. She was able to see that her thoughts of failure impacted her feelings and behavior. By changing the
In this paper I will identify the skills, strengths, values, views and the language that I conveyed in the final role play assessment as well as what I would have done differently. I will also provide an analysis and an evaluation of the skills that I conveyed in the interview.
I think that the elaborating skills are very important in a therapeutic session. The client has never seen the social worker before, generally the client meets the dressed up social worker and walks to their office to see a bunch of degrees on the wall and then the social worker begins their session. Clients can be intimidated