Writing, Documentation, and Interviewing Skills in Social Work.

Catalog description

This is a writing intensive course. 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 documentation 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 to assess and respond to the social and economic factors that contributing to constituent concerns. Attention is given to interviewing to identify client strengths and 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. Prerequisite: Acceptance into MSW program.