The Intake And Engagement Video With My Client Samantha

When working with all clients there is a need as a practitioner to use techniques that incorporate, promote a therapeutic relationship. While these may be presented differently with each client the practitioners need to be using three main skills. These are using Unconditional positive regard, being genuine with clients always and while you may not have waked in a similar situation as your client, the use of empathy supports the therapeutic relationship.

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

Milten Erikson emphasized the vital need to enter the client’s world and not to drag them into ‘your’ way of thinking. We need to learn their language, their perspectives and

This paper explores the scenario of a client and looks at the presenting problem from an ecological and strengths perspective. It will also explore advanced clinical skills, intervention strategies and ethical dilemmas encountered. Methods for evaluating progress will be discussed within the social context of the case. Termination and follow-up approaches, and any ethical dilemmas will be included. Any problems with oppressed populations will also be discussed. Finally, the limits of the chosen model and limits of the practitioner, evolution of client and practitioner identities, any ethical or social justice issues for the agency, and an evaluation of the practitioner’s effectiveness will conclude the paper.

Does the intake form ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is? I think this form does an adequate asking what the presenting problem is by up front asking what the problems are that the individual is seeking help for and giving the client space to say in their own words what their problem is. I also like that after the open ended question of the presenting problem there is a checklist of symptoms for the client to prompt

For this part of the assignment I am using examples from a 50 minute session recorded within the learning environment. I play the role of the counsellor, and another student plays the role of the client. In order for me to answer the learning outcomes, I have watched the DVD recording.

The process of motivational interviewing is essentially about creating "intrinsic motivation to change" within the client (Moyers, 1998). The choice to change must originate with the client and the process for helping this occur begins with motivational interviewing. There are two phases within motivational interviewing, the first focuses on increasing the client’s motivation to change and the second phase is negotiating a plan and consolidating commitment. It is important to understand the traps that can be encountered within this process, such as the question/answer trap. In this trap the client is led by the counselor with little chance to have free speech to explain themselves because the counselor is just focused on the next question instead of focusing on where the client is leading them. This trap is very similar to the expert trap in the fact that the client is left to believe they cannot find answers for themselves; they instead must listen to the expert who is giving them the answers. This is most definitely not the way to motivate a client to make changes for themselves. Other traps include premature focus, denial, labeling, and blaming; all of which can prevent the client from opening up in the treatment process.

The intake form is easy to read and presented in a way that is easy to navigate through. As a client it would be easy enough to go down the list and answer the questions. As a social worker, there may be concern that important questions do not pop out such as suicide idealizations and owning a gun. The question regarding if a client is wanting to harm someone else should also be included in this form for obvious safety

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

During this initial session, the client stated she is seeking counseling to "help find herself" due to some concerns she is dealing with in her personal life. When asked "to describe what does finding herself mean" the client was unable to answer. The client struggled to provide her view or a meaning to certain issues she identified as concerns. The counselor then assesses the client's family and her interactions with her family to find a correlation in her family interaction and what changes she wants to make in her personal life. Initial impression from the counselor is the client is aware of herself and her family and what she views as a positive and negative interaction which has or could impact the way she views things now. The client

Beginning the interview and skills/techniques used (empathy, rapport building, listening skills, closed-ended questions and open-ended questions, signs of client engagement)

Overall, the intake form has some very key components. However, there are a few questions that could be added to obtain clarity and a more comprehensive overview of the client’s presenting problem and background. “The presenting problem and the exploration that follows usually identify key individuals, groups, or organizations that are participants in the client’s difficulties” (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, & Strom-Gottfried, 2013, p. 201). Specific information about the frequency, location, reaction, and duration of the presenting problem should be added to the intake

Listening skills supported as evidence based to assist social workers in building rapport are summarizing, reflective listening, active listening, supporting the client in emotional labeling, paraphrasing, and mirroring, which is a method that reiterates the last word or phrase from the client and forms it into a question (Hendricks & McKean, 2010). Therefore, active listening is when the professional focuses on verbal and non-verbal prompts from the client and reproducing the language back to guarantee that they are being correctly interpreted (Shulman, 2006). Social workers use numerous

The process of intake is the first step to the individual counseling and treatment. It is a one on one interview to set up dates and times best for the individual. Time and preparation are very important to this process because the program requires you to complete all your mandates. Today I interview ten different individuals. The issues are that court normally starts at 10 because of the judge so that leave me 2 hours to fully analyze every individual correctly and effectively. The first challenge I realize was that court does not work on people time. No matter how many people, there are some who not granted a fair and impractical trial. One of the individual because they could not understand why he was given more than 11 mandate was forced

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