Client System Role Play Reflection As A Therapeutic Staff Support

Trainees will demonstrate their ability to individually observe another group’s role play interview and verbally identify two good

This essay will explore the nature of the therapeutic process; using my fifty minute long real play session with one of my colleagues. Also, I will explore my experience of the therapeutic relationship and how it influences therapeutic change and increase the affectivity of the therapy.

Empathic responses are vital to building a therapeutic relationship between a social worker and client. Empathy is also vital to the decision making and changing process that takes place within a client (Feller & Cottone, 2003). The empathy will be conveyed to the client and family through both verbal and non-verbal cues. Due to the language barrier and the need of an interrupter, the social worker must ensure that the non-verbal cues express the empathetic and authentic responses being given. Each engagement strategy that is deployed aids in the rapport established between the client and social worker.

Client was able to reflect the right feelings using her body language and facial features during the game. Client was able to find a suitable solution for her feelings of frustration working in a group by saying, "Next time we will do better." When therapist asked client during the game what her first three thoughts would be if her teacher said "I'm going to call your parents," client reported, "I would ask why, then say I didn't do anything, then tell my teacher that my mom is at work and can't talk." When the client pulled a game card asking when was the last time she talked back, client reported the last time she talked back was when her foster mom refused to let her play outside. When therapist gave client emotions board to identify the three emotions she felt during the session, client reported that she feels joy because she likes the new board game, happy because we plan to talk about controlling anger next session, and surprised because of the new therapist. Therapist praised the client and her thoughts and behavior and client was happy with therapist

Figure 1 illustrates the level of anxiety that Crystal felt during the role play session. On day one showed the baseline scores of 9. However as the days went by, Crystal displayed a decreased in anxiety after implementing the intervention. During intervention phase, both myself and Crystal continue to play the roles of interviewer and interviewee. This allowed for Crystal to identify her thought process during interviews and see how it impacted her behavior. This led her to use more alternative thoughts such as “I can do this,” “I will got this job” and “I will not fail,” which allowed her to change her behavior. She became calm and seem more confidence in answering questions. Crystal‘s level of confidence is shown in figure 2. She was able to examine her responses after enacting the mock-scene. She was able to see that her thoughts of failure impacted her feelings and behavior. By changing the

In particular, there were certain interventions that I was happy with. Throughout the session I believe I conveyed empathy and was actively listening to the client. I was paying attention to her and, especially at emotional stories, I was empathetic to her feelings. I was also happy with how the negative thoughts activity went during the session. First, asking

The process of running a group therapy session is a unique time to tests a person’s skills abilities when it comes to facilitating that group. This paper will mainly look at ways when it comes to my learning's of this class that I took ways; I will also show examples and skills to run a good group therapy session. This whole paper is a reflection of the many things that I took was on being an active group counselor facilitator.

I think that the elaborating skills are very important in a therapeutic session. The client has never seen the social worker before, generally the client meets the dressed up social worker and walks to their office to see a bunch of degrees on the wall and then the social worker begins their session. Clients can be intimidated

I always seem to become anxious when it comes to role playing. This time was no different. In fact I was a bit more anxious as I was being graded for this assignment. When I first read the project I felt this was not to difficult. I pick a scenario, grab a few people to act, and “boom” I am done. In addition, I thought to myself I do this work on a day in and day basis so it will not be that hard. However, it was a lot more challenging than I anticipated. In the work that I do (Community Based Interventionist) I interact with youth and families everyday and in those interactions I am constantly using empathy, eye contact, warmth, and genuineness (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2015). However, I have never taken notice to using them. In addition,

In this paper I will identify the skills, strengths, values, views and the language that I conveyed in the final role play assessment as well as what I would have done differently. I will also provide an analysis and an evaluation of the skills that I conveyed in the interview.

I have seen the nursing process being used within my practice. The society that I go to for my clinical evaluations and regular charting for every resident in the house. They identity daily, short-term, and long-term goals. Every resident has a chart that the need to fill out, by doing this it allows the residents have some accountability on their part of the goals. In addition, the nurses also observe that the residents progress, these observations are done throughout the day and charted daily. Being in the practice setting for a few weeks now, I’ve had the opportunity to use nursing processes with a few residents. I worked with a resident to help them understand and communicate with the staff members about how this resident was feeling. I worked with this resident to prepare and brainstorm ways that they could approach and deal with the issue. Helping them understand that feeling

The following paper will examine the role-play intake interview that was posted on YouTube as a learning tool by Dr. Todd L. Grande. The information from this interview is gathered by observing the videos and class discussion, which is then written in a psychosocial assessment of the client. The assessment includes current concerns, family history, and next steps/goals for the client.

Prior to engaging with Ms X for the commencement of work, it is necessary to 'tune in ' to the case circumstances applying a holistic approach to gain as much insight to the service user(s) as possible before contact is made. Douglas (2008) states that "the pre-contact phase which helps to prepare the social work student for face-to face intervention, is a prerequisite for effective practice". With this in mind, I took the opportunity to contact the designated social worker assigned to this family to arrange a one-to-one meeting to allow for more information sharing. This meeting proved to be positive and it allowed me to gather more insight to this case from the observations and findings from another individual. However I must be sceptic in these circumstances and not take all information as face value. Referring to the conceptual model (...), each

This first topic will be a reflection of content that has been applied to and the strengths of the roleplay. The very start of the therapy process from the point to meeting a client is very important to engage the therapeutic alliance (Wener, et al., 2015, p. 312). A way to start engaging with the alliance is by presenting an open and respectful manner to the client, during the role play this initial phrase was

In the beginning phase of the counselling session I attended to the preliminary section of the meeting. I condoned a convenient place to meet, so that my client would feel comfortable, and at ease. This is important so that the client feels comfortable in sharing. I offered water in which the client accepted. While attending to my client I maintained appropriate body language. I made sure to sit straight and have my shoulders pointed directly to her, and made consistent eye contact. I wanted to place myself in a manner that directly faced her so my client would feel like the focus was primarily on her. Although, my personal mannerisms could have been interpreted as distracting and a loss of objectivity. Aside from my attending body posture, I did present stiff and unrelaxed throughout most of the session. I did not move the entire interview with the exception of my hands when I spoke, which as a bit too often. The client attempted some humor or lightheartedness twice, which perhaps should have invoked a smile or a mild chuckle from myself to recognize the client’s effort at being humorous. But I did not respond.