Student Skills Inventory For Social Work Skills Lab Intensiv

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During the Skills Lab Intensive, you must demonstrate all the required behaviors from each Skills Category. Use this document to track, score, and describe those behaviors as you perform them. The other listed skills are highly encouraged but not required. These include skills that you may or may not have the opportunity to display, depending on your role in the Intensive’s sessions.

Instructions: Checkmark Column: Place a check next to each skill as you demonstrate it in the Intensive. This column provides a quick view of completed skills.

Score Column: After checking off a skill, assess yourself on that skill using the following scale: 5 = Demonstrates a high level of competency, 4 = Clearly demonstrates competency, 3 = Demonstrates a minimum level of competency, 2 = Demonstrates an inadequate level of competency, 1 = Demonstrates no competency.

Student Assessment Column: Record when and how you demonstrated the skill and any relevant information to support your self-assessment. Skills marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

Diversity and Inclusion Skills to Demonstrate

• Create an inclusive environment
• Demonstrate sensitivity to accessibility
• Demonstrate an openness to difference *
• Demonstrate an ability to solicit information regarding an individual’s cultural and spiritual background *
• Articulate resources to improve one’s own knowledge regarding diverse populations

Group Facilitation Skills to Demonstrate

• Create a safe environment *
• Provide verbal encouragement *
• Provide nonverbal encouragement
• Enlist feedback from group members
• Address disruptive group members
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively and professionally work within a group *
• Close a meeting

Micro Skills to Demonstrate

• Nonverbally attend to an individual’s situation *
• Demonstrate open-ended questions *
• Demonstrate the ability to assess client needs *
• Gather specific information
• Demonstrate paraphrasing *
• Ask questions to uncover client strengths *
• Convey client strengths
• Demonstrate the ability to address a hostile individual
• Demonstrate appropriate self-disclosure
• Demonstrate a SOAP note *

Community Skills to Demonstrate

• Demonstrate the ability to advocate with and for a population *
• Demonstrate how to assess community needs *
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to engage key stakeholders *
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand community resources *
• Explain the role of a community organization within the context of the needs of a community

Professional Demeanor Skills to Demonstrate

• Demonstrate appropriate dress
• Use professional language to convey ideas
• Use person-first language
• Show respect for colleagues through verbal communication
• Show respect for colleagues through nonverbal communication
• Demonstrate understanding of social work concepts, values, and ethics
• Accept feedback in a positive manner
• Give feedback in a positive manner

Assessment and Expectations

Throughout the Skills Lab Intensive, your ability to demonstrate these skills and exhibit professional and ethical behavior will be assessed. Successful demonstration of all required skills results in full course points. Failure to demonstrate all skills may necessitate additional assignments or could impact final grading.

Students are expected to arrive on time, participate actively, support peers, and communicate respectfully. Ethical principles outlined by the NASW Code of Ethics, especially regarding respect, cooperation, and confidentiality, are to be upheld at all times.

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