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95 Activities for Mastering Social Work Skills
- Research eligibility requirements for services outside the agency
- Take public transportation from home to the Department of Social Services
- Walk around a neighborhood where many clients live
- Spend a day at a food pantry
- Visit the shelters in the community
- Spend an afternoon at a WIC clinic
- Assess client suitability for particular treatment (ex., group)
- Assess a client using an eco-map or other assessment tool to determine strengths and intervention needs
- Provide information to client regarding policies and services of the agency
- Explain managed care benefits and policies to client
- Complete “hot line” training or suicide prevention training
- Assess the nature and severity of a client’s crisis situation
- Assess a client’s use of alcohol, illegal drugs or prescribed medication
- Assess the impact of addiction on client’s family
- Perform a mental status exam
- Obtain and formally write up a client’s biopsychosocial history
- Assess the significance of cultural background to a client
- Assess the significance of spiritual beliefs to a client
- Gather and verify information about a client from collateral sources
- Identify client’s use of defense mechanisms
- Administer standardized instruments to measure client symptoms or behaviors
- Assess client symptoms using DSM criteria
- Develop a treatment plan based on diagnostic assessment
- Assess need for Child Abuse Report
- Assess parenting skills
- Assess client’s ability to perform daily living skills
- Develop measurable objectives to assess client change
- Develop a time frame for intervention
- Help parents to understand child development
- Engage client in goal setting
- Describe (in supervision) developmental issues relevant to client
- Process recording of observed intervention
- Process recording of own intervention
- Process recording of staff meeting
- Teach client communication skills
- Teach client daily living skills
- Arrange transportation for a client
- Assist client to understand the implications of a medical or psychological report
- Assist client to obtain needed resources
- Update agency resource manual
- Develop a resource list for a client for a particular problem
- Observe a medication review
- Observe parent interaction with children
- Observe clients in classrooms or other group settings
- Arrange for interpretation services for a client
- Observe family court sessions
- Observe a group and describe interaction patterns
- Help group members understand their patterns of interaction
- Develop curriculum for a group
- Help a client advocate for their rights
- Provide outreach services
- Make home visits
- Provide case management or intensive case management
- Refer clients for services
- Follow up on referrals
- Write a discharge or transfer summary
- Provide feedback to client about progress toward goals
- Provide testimony in court
- Provide testimony at a public hearing
- Write a letter to the editor regarding a service issue
- Write a letter to state or federal representatives advocating for resources
- Write an article for the agency newsletter
- Participate in the planning of a workshop or conference
- Collaborate with other to address a community need
- Participate as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Participate as a member of a multi-agency team
- Facilitate a team meeting
- Provide an in-service training
- Participate in QA processes such as chart reviews
- Prepare budget materials
- Participate in development or revision of agency policy manuals
- Advocate for policy change
- Develop and write proposals for funding
- Review proposals for funding
- Develop program brochures
- Make presentations in the community “selling” the agency or its programs
- Develop measurable outcomes for evaluating a program
- Review contracts to monitor agency compliance
- Use research to support program planning
- Create an organizational flow chart
- Redesign an agency form
- Analyze relative costs of service program alternatives
- Recruit volunteers
- Provide training to volunteers or staff
- Provide supervision to volunteers or staff
- Conduct performance appraisals of volunteers or staff
- Participate in hiring interviews
- Attend board meeting
- Cover a shift at the receptionist desk
- Read the Code of Ethics of other professionals working on the team
- Journal
- Participate in an intern peer support group: take turns chairing the meeting
- Attend community cultural events related to the cultural background of current clients
- Attend religious services at a faith community which is part of many client’s support system
- Organize an activity or field trip for residents or participants
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