Interview And Reflection: Interview For A Senior Social Worker Intern

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Video Interview and Reflection Paper This paper will cover the reflection on a class interview for a senior social worker intern. The teacher gave every student ten minutes to complete the interview. The social worker intern was prepared for the interview. She found out her scenario just minutes before the interview. This paper will focus on the limits of confidentiality for the client, potential assessment for the client, engagement with the client, and evaluation of the social worker. Scenario The story was about a social worker intern who was placed in the hospital emergency room. The social worker had to do an intervention to one of her classmates who is in the same social work program, Ralph. Ralph arrives in need of facial sutures after Every client in a hospital has the right to keep their information confidential, unless required by law which can include: notification of infectious diseases, notification of suspected child abuse, legal process, necessary for the public interest, and serious criminal activity (Wilson,1997). In Ralph case, the social worker can suspect of child abuse since he came in with a 14-year-old girl. The social worker intern is a mandated reporter which it requires her to do a report to child protection services. The agency will decide if there is a child abuse in Ralph The social worker should have asked more open-ended questions, by asking more questions she could be able to get more information about the client’s feelings. By Seeking concreteness would be more helpful for the social worker to be able to get more clear thoughts on how to help Ralph (Hepworth et al, 2013, p.144). Seeking concreteness, the social worker would be able to get Ralph’s message and she will be able to better assist him with his needs. Another way to help Ralph would be for the social worker to paraphrase everything he says, to make it clear to him that the social worker understands what he is saying (Hepworth et al, 2013, p.173). The social worker did demonstrated empathy to the client. According to the book, Direct Social Worker Practice: Theory and Skills, the social worker would be in the level 3 on showing empathy. Level 3 demonstrates apparent emotions in the client’s message, but the deeper feeling of the client is not taken into consideration (Hepworth et al, 2013, p.103). Since the social worker is an intern she still needs to learn how to connect with the deeper feelings of every client she will have in the future. By exploring the client’s deeper feelings, she will be able to assist Ralph better. The social worker did a good job at summarizing at the end of the interview (Hepworth et al, 2013, p.159). She did summarize the purpose of the

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