As the social worker develops an understanding of the basic behavior of the client, he should
A. continue to observe the client, keeping this knowledge in mind.
B. share this information with the client.
C. direct the client toward awareness without interpretation.
D. gauge when the client is ready to both share and contribute to understanding his own behavior and this discuss it.
C. direct the client toward awareness without interpretation.
The goal of clinical work is to promote insight so the client may change behavior. Answer A suggests that the worker should keep the information to himself, which has no clinical impact. It is important that the worker do the least intrusive intervention first, and encourage the client to discover the insight themselves. Therefore it is not useful for the worker to inform the client of the clinician's observations (C). Answer D states that the worker influences the conversation in ways that encourage the client to discover.
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