Discussion Prompts A

Discussion Prompts
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1. Describe how you can prepare to engage, assess, intervene, evaluate and follow-up with clients.
To engage with clients, it is important practically and successfully prepare for action with persons, families, communities, and organizations. Engaging with people require a good listener and an open mind to understand their issues and therefore help them overcome them. Empathy and other interpersonal skills are critical when engaging with people. It is also necessary to develop the mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes.
Assessment is a role of social workers, and it requires proper preparations to work closely with clients to collect data relevant to a client’s problems and develop intervention strategies to help the clients (Parker, 2017). In regards to intervention, a social worker needs to be ready to help clients resolve their issues. Intervention is possible when a social worker has the knowledge and skills to implement prevention interventions, facilitate transitions, negotiate, advocate and play other critical roles for clients
Social workers also engage in evaluation which involves monitoring, analyzing and evaluating interventions to help the needy and make their lives better. There is a need to have the skills, training, and expertise to be able to perform this role.
2. After reading the text this week, how do you define the practice of social work?
Social work…