Practicing and Evaluating the Ending Stage of the Interview

S332: Generalist Social Work Practice II

Instructions: Arrange to conduct a short interview segment with your partner. During the interview, you are to practice interviewing skills associated with the contracting and ending stages of the interview.

Use this checklist to analyze your performance with the ENDING STAGEpart of your interview. Once completed, save this document, and upload it to the M3U6 drop box.

Note: You should submit two self-evaluation worksheets for this assignment, one for the contracting stage and one for the ending stage. Upload both of them in the M3U6 drop box.

Interviewer:______

Interviewee______

IMPORTANT: Read the instructions under “Comments/Examples” carefully. Specific examples and recording times are needed to assess your self-evaluation.

Skill area / Yes / No / Comments/Examples
In the beginning
  • Able to make a clear transition between the contracting stage and the ending of the interview
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Reflect on all sub-skills and give at least one specific example with recording time
Attention to client
  • Provided and maintained eye contact
  • Showed interest in client
  • Solicited feedback from the client
  • Heard what client was saying
  • Paid attention to how client said and what was said
  • Ask client to clarify meaning
  • Able to tolerate silence
  • My affect matched what I was saying to the client
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Micro-skills – Ending Stage
  • Able to terminate the interview with a clear understanding of the time place of the next meeting.
  • Able to sense that a solid alliance between social worker and client has evolved around specific realistic and attainable objectives
  • Able to obtain precise description from the client of the objectives the client is ready to begin work on
  • Able to get the client-system to agree upon one or two tasks associated with a specific objective to begin work on
  • Able to get the client-system to specify a reasonable period of time to achieve tasks
  • Gave reassurances when necessary
  • Did not barrage this stage of the interview by giving too many tasks to do
  • Able to avoid interrupting the client inappropriately.
  • Able to avoid being too professional and detached from the client
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