Social Work and Human Services
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ASSIGNMENT 2. GENERALIST INTERVENTION MODEL
ANALYSIS PAPER
This assignment requires you to demonstrate your knowledge of generalist social work practice, the Ten Core Competencies and Practice Behaviors.
Instructions: Prepare a typed, written response to the questions. Information
from concurrent social work courses will be helpful in preparing
your responses. Please answer all questions completely and in
a professional manner.
A. Identify a client system (organization, community) that is being served by or is associated with your agency. In your description, explain why the client system is involved with your agency (presenting problem, situation, and/or circumstance).
B. Analyze the application of the Generalist Intervention Model to your client system’s involvement with your agency.(EPAS 2.1.10) PB 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13)
C. Address the following areas in your analysis.
I. Engagement
1. What specific techniques are used to facilitate building an effective helping relationship?
2. What approaches are used to make your client (client system) feel more at ease and less fearful about entering a professional relationship?
3. What approaches are used to help the client (client system) specify, elaborate, and clarify the concerns that brought the client to the agency?
4. How is the client (client system) actively involved in the process of identifying and defining their problems, concerns, and strengths?
II. Assessment
1. What information is routinely gathered about the client (client system) and their problems, concerns, and strengths?
2. What tools or instruments are used to aid the gathering of this data (e.g., interview schedules, checklists, needs assessment instruments, questionnaires, and observation)?
3. What issues of diversity and power need to be addressed in the data gathering process?
4. How are available data and information organized, combined, and analyzed in order to arrive at a clear picture of the client’s situation and a possible plan of action? (EPAS 2.1.3) PB 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
5. What theories are used in the assessment of the client’s (client systems) issues, problems?(EPAS 2.1.7) PB 7.1, 7.2
III. Planning
1. When more than one issue is identified, how are the prioritized?
2. How are clients (client system) desires incorporated into the plan?
3. What issues of diversity and power need to be addressed in the plan?(EPAS 2.1.4) PB 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
4. Is a formal contract developed?
5. How is potential resistance addressed?
6. How are alternative plans considered?
7. Are ethical and legal issues related to the plan addressed? (EPAS 2.1.2) PB 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
8. Is the plan based on sound theoretical models and perspectives?
9. Is the plan based on empirically supported evidence? (EPAS 2.1.6) PB 6.1, 6.2
10. Are the plan’s outcomes reasonable and measureable?
11. What issues need to be considered to advance your client’s human rights and economic justice? (EPAS 2.1.5) PB 5.5, 5.2, 5.3
IV. Implementation
1. What system (e.g., client, family, and community) is typically targeted for change by your agency’s programs and professional staff? Why?
2. What other agencies or organizations often become involved in the client’s intervention plan?
3. What practice frameworks (perspectives, theories, and models) guide the change process? EPAS 2.1.7) PB 7.1, 7.2
4. What specific methods, techniques, or procedures are used to facilitate change and to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective social work services? (EPAS 2.1.8) PB 8.1, 8.2
5. What specific methods, tools, or instruments are used to monitor whether the intervention is working as planned and expected?
V. Evaluation and Termination
1. In what ways do the agency and its workers determine if their interventions, programs, and services are effective?
2. To what extent are clients involved in determining if interventions, programs, and services are effective?
3. Does your agency adequately evaluate its interventions, programs, and services?
4. What additional forms of evaluation might you suggest?
5. Under what conditions are interventions terminated by social workers?
6. Under what circumstances do clients terminate their relationships with personnel from your agency (e.g., when legal mandates are lifted, when clients no longer wish to receive services, when their ability to pay for services ends)?
7. What specific procedures and techniques are used to bring the professional relationship to a close and terminate the helping process?
8. What changes need to occur to improve the quality of services to your client and ensure that services delivered by the agency are always relevant? (EPAS 2.1.9) PB 9.1, 9.2
VI. Follow-up
1. How is follow-up conducted in your agency?
2. At what intervals does follow-up occur?
3. What is done with the information obtained during follow-up
VII. Supervision and Consultation
1. Discuss the professional practice behaviors demonstrated in interactions with your client system
What did you learn that will assist in your professional development? (EPAS 2.1) PB 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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