Instructions
Each student will complete a Personal Toolbox Journal for every module. The toolbox will be a place where you can add social work skills you are learning about, using, and exploring through each module, the readings, and your experiences in the field.
As you add to your developing skills in each module you will have a set of tools accumulated over the course of this first semester. It will be interesting to watch how your skills develop and be able to reflect back on the way you used them in the beginning of our work, compared to how you use them over the course of your first-year internship. This is a personal record and a way to actually witness your own growth and development as a professional social worker.
Identify three skills from the readings and/or module.
For each skill you identify do the following:
Name the skill.
Define the skill.
Discuss the use of this skill.
What is the purpose of this skill?
How does it enhance your relationship with or the work you are doing with the client(s)?
Give an example of how you used it in your field placement.
If you have not used it, talk about how you could use it in your work.
Reflect on the use of the skill you described in the example.
In what way was it useful? If not useful, discuss your thoughts as to why.
How might you use it differently next time?
Requirements
Submit your assignment by the posted due date.
Responses should be thoughtful and demonstrate serious consideration of the skills you have chosen.
Shulman, L. (2016). The skills of helping individuals, families, groups and communities. (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 1: An Interactional Approach to Helping
Chapter 2: The Preliminary Phase of Work
Hepworth, D.H., Rooney, R.H., Rooney, D.R., Strom-Gottfried, K., & Larsen, J.A. (2013). Direct social work practice: Theory and skills (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning/Brooks Cole.
Chapter 1: The Challenges of Social Work
Chapter 2: Direct Practice
Chapter 3: Overview of the Helping Process
Chapter 5: Building Blocks of Communication
