Conduct a psycho-social case history by interviewing someone with a background different from your background such as: a client in your present internship.

The Psycho-social case history is to follow the format of the Description, Assessment, Contract Model (DAC).

Assignment 1:

Conduct a psycho-social case history by interviewing someone with a background different from your background such as: a client in your present internship.

The psycho-social case history is to follow the format of the Description, Assessment, and Contract Model (DAC). Scroll to the end of this document and you can see all the headings/subheadings which need to be included in the assignment.

Social History of the Client:

The interview should be aimed at knowing and understanding the challenges, the richness and opportunities rendered by our society through diversity.

This assignment also serves to provide opportunities to know, appreciate and be sensitive to others who are different from you as a client/social worker level and to evaluate your level of understanding about the daily struggles they go through in life which might be different and/or similar to yours.

Your ability to critically analyze for similarities and differences in working with clients as all members of the human race is of primary importance for your future practice in social work. Be sure to follow the format in this paper by using headings and sub headings.

Describe the reasons for working with this client, values, principles, Theory you used? What did you learn from that experience?

Guidelines:

Practice using objective language in your assessment. Feel free to use the client’s own words (in quotes, of course) when that is helpful.

Objective example:

Client reported feeling sad about the death of his father and has been having difficulty sleeping through the night for the past 4 months.

Subjective example:

Client is depressed and is avoiding dealing with the death of his father. (AVOID STATEMENTS LIKE THIS)

If you share any impressions, observations, or inferences of your own, be clear in labeling those as such.

Use a strengths orientation/approach:

Part of a strengths-based orientation to practice is understanding, in the context of adversity, the skills, abilities, and resources utilized by your client to maintain physical, psychological, interpersonal, spiritual, and cultural health.

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