This document outlines competencies for social workers intervening with clients. It describes behaviors including critically choosing interventions to achieve goals and enhance client capacities, applying theoretical frameworks in client interventions, using inter-professional collaboration to achieve beneficial outcomes, negotiating, mediating and advocating for clients, and facilitating effective transitions and endings to advance agreed-upon goals. The behaviors are to be observed in recommendations for clients, interactions in home visits, interactions with supervisors, and clients' progressions toward goals.
This document outlines competencies for social workers intervening with clients. It describes behaviors including critically choosing interventions to achieve goals and enhance client capacities, applying theoretical frameworks in client interventions, using inter-professional collaboration to achieve beneficial outcomes, negotiating, mediating and advocating for clients, and facilitating effective transitions and endings to advance agreed-upon goals. The behaviors are to be observed in recommendations for clients, interactions in home visits, interactions with supervisors, and clients' progressions toward goals.
This document outlines competencies for social workers intervening with clients. It describes behaviors including critically choosing interventions to achieve goals and enhance client capacities, applying theoretical frameworks in client interventions, using inter-professional collaboration to achieve beneficial outcomes, negotiating, mediating and advocating for clients, and facilitating effective transitions and endings to advance agreed-upon goals. The behaviors are to be observed in recommendations for clients, interactions in home visits, interactions with supervisors, and clients' progressions toward goals.
Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
Behavior 8.23 Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
Observing recommendations put in
place by workers for clients to achieve. Behavior 8.24 Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person- in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
By observing clients interactions in
the environment through home visiting. Behavior 8.25 Use inter-professional collaboration as appropriate to achieve beneficial practice outcomes.
Interactions with advisor and
supervisor. Behavior 8.26 Negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of diverse clients and constituencies.
Observing social work skills for
negotiation, mediation, and advocacy on behalf of clients well-being. Behavior 8.27 Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.