This assignment is similar to the Practice Exercise Assignment in your textbook on page 113 in Chapter Six. However, be sure to review the steps carefully, then follow the guidelines listed below to complete the required components for your assignment.
The Exercise Objectives are:
To practice communicating to a client your readiness to listen, willingness to focus on work with the client, warmth, and overall involvement with the process.
These behaviors say to the client: “I am fully present and ready to be with you.”
To heighten your awareness of the nonverbal ways clients communicate.
To practice listening to what the client is trying to communicate.
Assignment Directions:
1. Preparation: Identify a subject you would like to interview.
This person should not be a family member or a close friend.
You will find that it is actually easier to work with a person, who is not a family member or close friend because this mirrors what a blank slate experience is like with a new client.
This will be a person you don’t know well, so as you are preparing for the interview remember you are just beginning to understand what the identify as challenges in their life.
Most important of all, by interviewing an acquaintance or stranger you will be less likely to make assumptions about that person.
This practice exercise must be done with a live person -this cannot be a mock interview that you have made up.
2. Ask the person if they are willing to participate in an interview with you, to discuss a problem or difficulty that they have experienced in order to assist you in learning interview skills.
Mention that this will take roughly a half hour of time.
Mention that it will be confidential and you will review the parameters of consent.
Mention that you will need to videotape/audiotape the session, but that only YOU will be visible in the videotaping.
Ask for their verbal agreement to participate.
3. Identify an appropriate private location, prepare for the interview. Public locations are best. Consider library study rooms, empty room in an office location, even at the table in a home. No bars, restaurants, or busy public areas.
When meeting with the subject, you will review and discuss confidentiality and consent.
You will need to obtain written consent from your subject to participate in the interview.
Please review the sample informed consent form found on pp.127-128 in our textbook. A modified version of that sample consent form is available for use in this week’s folder.
Be sure to submit a copy of the consent form as an appendix to your paper.
Have a photocopy of the evaluation form on pp.115-116 available for both of you to review post interview. This is the “ratings survey” that is mentioned on our grading rubric.
You do not need to attach the ratings survey to your paper, but be sure to include in your narrative a summary of your discussion and findings.
4. Interview Exercise: The problem/conflict should be something that you are both comfortable discussing for a few minutes. It doesn’t have to be too personal or sensitive; an everyday challenge can be fine.
Review the behaviors discussed in the chapters for this week and on the evaluation form for this assignment.
Clarify with your subject the parameters of the interview and limitations of your roles as client and practitioner.
Obtain written consent from your subject to participate in the interview.
Begin video-recording of yourself during the interview.
You can use your personal cell phone or other electronic device to record and upload it, share a link, or email the recording directly to your instructor.
If you do not have a device that can record video:
Review instructions for using Screencast-O-Matic to record video here: Multimedia Writing & Design Support
5. Evaluation: After the meeting, both you and your interview subject will complete a copy of the rating survey for this assignment.
Have the ratings survey available to complete and discuss post interview with the subject.
You can photocopy the form or write the scores in your book or write down the scores on a separate sheet of paper. This is for your use only.
Be sure to include in your narrative your discussion and findings of comparing the ratings survey.
6. Document your reaction to the interview.
What is your reaction to the exercise?
What did you learn?
Provide examples and details about each of the following skills:
Attending
Observing
Listening
Warmth
Which skills do you see as your strengths and which ones would you like to improve on?
Discuss and compare the two ratings survey evaluations.
How were the ratings of yourself and your interview subject similar or different?
7. Mechanics
Your paper should be written in a professional style, 3-5 pages, and single spaced.
Summarize your interview subject
Summarized the issue discussed
Summarize your skills strengths and areas to improve upon
Include summary of discussion about obtaining consent, confidentiality, and the rating scale.
Be sure that your video focused on you interviewing and not the interview subject.
Email or upload video recording of interview.
Upload your paper here.
Writing Tips:
Provide clear examples and discussion/reflection on your answers to each question.
Provide a clear, well organized, response that integrates the questions into your paper in an essay format.
Q: Identify counseling skills that you used during the interview. Discuss your experience.
For full credit, your answer must be complete, accurate, clear, and show reflection on the assignment.
You need to identify what you did in the exercises (provide examples) in order to show what you learned; rather than simply responding “I was emphatic or I learned to be emphatic.”
Sample answer excerpt: In my interview, I utilized the counseling skill of content reflection by summarizing the interview subject’s comments back to them. I did this in order to show the subject that I heard what they said and to confirm that I understood their correct meaning. The client responded “Yes, that’s how I felt” (or no, or nodded or asked why I was repeating what she said), etc. I felt that this was useful because (or awkward because), etc.
Use subheadings to identify required sections.
Check your grammar and spelling
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