Interview social workers in their agencies about which intervention theories they use, and why.
What will be an ideal response?
Below is an outline that students may use in completing this assignment:
• Name of the agency
• The social worker’s job title
• Range of the social worker’s responsibilities and activities
• The kinds of clients he or she works with
• The kinds of problems or challenges faced by his or her clients
• The social worker’s description of the processes by which his or her clients develop problems or experience challenges that bring them to the agency
• How the social worker organizes interventions to help clients, and why
• Positive client outcomes the social worker hopes for
• Negative client outcomes that sometimes occur
• Some interventions that do and do not work with particular clients
• What the social worker believes is most important to the change process for clients
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