Skills identified

Beginning Interview Skills: Analysis of a Process Recording – Due November 10th, 2022
Through your development of social work interviewing skills, analyze your process recording of an
interview with a client system as part of clinical analysis tools. The format for this assignment will be
handed out in class and posted on Blackboard, early in the semester.
Goals:
The Process Recording is an opportunity for the student to intentionally reflect on their beginning client
interactions. To achieve this goal, the student will choose a client with whom they are developing a
beginning relationship.
The student will then secure an informed consent from the client and permission from the supervisor to
use information provided by the client. Because informed consents vary across agency, you are to discuss
with your supervisor the most appropriate way to secure written permission from the client to use their
information to complete your assignment.
Format:
The Process Recording shall not exceed eight typed written pages. The optimal number of pages is
between four and six pages. Using any word processing package, create a table with four column
headings. The first heading is labeled Dialogue. The second column is labeled Gut Level Feelings. The
third column is labeled Logical Interpretations of Skills Used – the skills used will be identified and
cited either using the Schulman and/or the Hepworth et al., texts. The full citation will be consistent
with APA format. You are expected to identify and use at least 12 different skills. Skills identified
without the citations will not receive credit. Three or more uncited skills will result in the failure of
the paper. The fourth is labeled Comments/Improvements.
Evaluation of the Assignment:
Because this assignment centers on the student’s reflection on one encounter with their client in the
beginning phase of treatment, they will be graded on their level of ability to use the readings in
describing the skills they used in the encounter with the client as well as their critique of the encounter.