Interviewing and Documentation in Social Work.

Catalog description

This is the first class in the practice component of the Social Work curriculum. Interviewing and Documentation in Social Work is a prerequisite for SOW 365: Social Work Practice I and SOW 430: Social Work Practice II. This course introduces students to the process of interviewing and documenting encounters with clients. Students are introduced to the principles, skills, and phases of interviewing clients. The course emphasizes essential engagement, communication, and recording skills and techniques. It also develops students’ ability to use interviewing, intervention, and documentation skills to enhance relationships with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and community systems. Students will learn the oral and written skills necessary to engage in social work practice and how interviews can help to promote social and economic justice. Attention is given to interviewing to communicate respect, warmth, acceptance, and authenticity related to clients’ age, socio economic status, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.