I’m working on a social science writing question and need support to help me understand better.

Respond to the blog post of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways:

• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Make a suggestion to your colleague’s post.

Colleague 1: Amber M

• An explanation of how you have addressed evaluation or how you might address evaluation in your field education experience.

I welcome evaluation, although it can be a tough pill to swallow, evaluation is a benchmark and a learning experience. During my field research I am not an expert and therefore should always receive feedback and criticism. These constructive criticisms are meant to help me be better in my practice. According to Garthwait, supervision is meant help educate and review the clients work and documentation. By doing this supervisor and evaluate their teams work and make sure it is meeting standards. Field preceptors have an ethical obligation and responsibility to make sure they supervise correctly and by doing so evaluation keeps the standards high.

The best way to address it to accept it because it will help me be a better clinician. The field preceptors have that title for a reason, by taking their evaluations and putting them to practice can make me up to standard.

Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

• Chapter 3, “Learning from Supervision” (pp. 28-40)

Colleague 2: Lheriise

Explain how you have addressed evaluation or how you might address evaluation in your field education experience.

According to Garthwait (2017), evaluations are used to determine the progress and effectiveness of goals and interventions. I see one of my clients once a week and update her treatment plan once every other week. In order to determine if goals are being met I have to evaluate her within the session to determine her progress. One of her goals for treatment is to be able to decrease anxiety and eliminate panic attacks. At the end of each session I give her home work or a specific DBT skill to practice to decrease her high levels of anxiety. This is something that we discuss each week for me to determine what interventions are working for her and what is not. Group therapy is another intervention that is applied to her case. To determine the effectiveness of group each week I ask her what are somethings that she has taken away from groups and can she apply any of it to work towards her goals. While I don’t formally evaluate her I do think that evaluation takes place in the form of inquiring about my clients challenges and determining how they were able to work through it.

References

Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The Social Work Practicum: A Guide and Workbook For Students. Pearson.

Colleague 3: Jacqueline

An explanation of how you have addressed evaluation or how you might address evaluation in your field education experience

Evaluation is an extremely important part of social work and can be used at th micro, mezzo, and macro level. The concept of evaluation is to determine the progress and effectiveness of goals and interventions (Garthwait, 2017, p.35). I plan on using evaluation to measure the outcomes and successes of every endeavor I attempt in the social work field. With a client an evaluation can be done by post-assessments and/or interviews to determine how the client has progressed and if an intervention has been successful. The same applies to work at the mezzo or macro level, at these levels surveys and statistics can also be used to determine if progress has been made when working towards change. I plan on using the information collected from evaluations to better my practice and skills. On a micro level, since each individual is different, evaluations are crucial to determine if intervention attempts need to be tweaked or modified to better fit the clients needs. In addition, during an evaluation with the client or client system I plan to discover what the person or groups perception of the intervention was, and whether they feel that it was successful. Evaluations are extremely important in social work because if they are not completed then there would be no way to determine the effectiveness of the practice, or learn from evidence-based practice (Garthwait, 2017, p.32). Also, I plan on using evaluations to determine when it is time to terminate sessions and whether the client has achieved the goal they set out to acheive at the beginning of treatment

References.

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Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.