Measuring Competency in the Use of Basic Social Work Skills Research on a new, comprehensive instrument used to evaluate beginning, exploring, reflecting, and contracting skills and expressions of warmth, empathy, genuineness, and respect. The study compared an earlier instrument used to evaluate student interviews (Katz, 1979) with the instrument developed by the authors. Thirty-eight students were recruited from two sections of a first year M.S.W. generalist skills course. The course objectives, textbook, workbook, and required final videotape were the same in each section. The students conducted a fifteen minute videotaped interview with individuals trained to simulate a client. Thirty tapes were randomly chosen for evaluation. Each student tape was independently evaluated by four social workers experienced in supervising students and trained in the use of each evaluation instrument. Both instruments were used to evaluate each tape. The raters also completed a survey related to the usefulness and applicability of each instrument.
Principal Investigators: Valerie Chang / Robert Bennett / Cathy Pike
Project Dates: 2000 - 2002
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