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Competency #6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Social workers understand that engagement is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Social workers value the importance of human relationships. Social workers understand theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluate and apply this knowledge to facilitate engagement with clients and constituencies, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Social workers understand strategies to engage diverse clients and constituencies to advance practice effectiveness.<\/p>\n

Practice Behavior 1:<\/strong> Examine evidence-based practices to prepare for professional engagement across system<\/p>\n

Practice Behavior 2:<\/strong> Engage with systems utilizing evidence-based practice strategies<\/p>\n

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Competency #6 in Practice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This competency is the essence of social work. It asks us to engage with systems and people. It also asks that we engage others in an evidence-based way so we can help them in the most effective ways possible. This is the basis of being a social worker and it guides me through everything that I do with clients and how I treat them. This competency goes hand in hand with everything that social work stands for. It tells me that if I am not engaging with clients and the systems they are a part of, I am not doing my job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidence for Practice Behavior 1: <\/strong>For this practice behavior, I did a corrective dialogue<\/a>\u00a0for the beginning stages of engagement of a pseudo-client using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in my Individuals and Families class. This assignment required me to read the dialogue and correct it to a more formal cognitive behavioral therapy dialogue. This engaged me in the examination of this practice.<\/p>\n

For my field evidence, I engaged in training with Centerstone that helped me work with my clients. This training mainly taught me about how to use Centerstone’s documentation software and the services they provide which is part of their evidence-based treatment. This prepared me to inform clients about why I am on my laptop during sessions and what services we could offer them. To demonstrate this engagement, please see this Journal entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evidence for Practice Behavior 2:<\/strong>\u00a0For this competency, I recorded a video<\/a> for my Individuals and Families class practicing CBT with a pseudo-client. Within this video, I present how I engage with clients in the beginning stages of CBT. The engagement steps that I performed were confidentiality, names exchange, therapeutic expectations and other such processes for the early stages of a therapeutic relationship. This enabled me to engage in evidence-based practice within a clinical\/therapeutic setting and demonstrates how I would work with clients in an actual academic setting.<\/p>\n

In working with one of my clients at practicum, I had to work with multiple agencies to get him the help that he needed. This involved a phone call to Youth Villages Mobil Crisis, work with guidance counselors and a principal at Lake Forest Middle school and coordinating efforts with my client\u2019s father. This is the most evidence-based strategy for this client because 1. It is the law for me to call YVMC when a client is in crisis on school grounds and 2. It had previously worked for this specific client in a similar case. See the casenote<\/a> for more details.<\/span><\/p>\n

The knowledge I used for this competency is related to my knowledge of evidence-based research. To effectively evaluate, it has to be research and evidence-based. This competence involves the social work values of dignity and respect of individuals. This means upholding the best standard of care for my clients by doing evidence-based research for evaluation practices. I had to use listening, empathy, communication and research for this Competency. For these evidences I distinguished, produced information and looked critically at the individual and their system involvement. For these tasks, I also had to organize and listen. Systems theory informed my practice with this Competency. It helped me to take a step back and look at my client not just as an individual, but also as a part of other systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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