Evidence Based Intervention Analysis

To me to intervene in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities means social workers know about evidence-based interventions to help achieve the goals of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities they work with. Social workers understand the theories from all course work and critically evaluate and apply what we know to successfully help clients meet their goals. We realize that inter-professional and interdisciplinary collaboration is important to helping clients. We use what we understand about human behavior, person-in-environment and theoretical framework with our clients. We advocate and mediate with and for clients to ensure goals are met. With all my client interactions I first make …show more content…
This allows us to learn about resources that are offered in different areas. Many work with people all over the state, however, many people are not aware of them because they are in different parts of the state.
A lot of the times the social workers at my internship would say they know there is a service for something, however they can’t remember what organization provides it. This led to extra time researching for it. To help solve this issue I created a binder that lists all the resources. Now as we find things we just add it to the binder. Therefore, it is faster and easier for us to find the needed interventions our clients …show more content…
Whenever this is the case I always speak to the former case manager and the treatment team. This allows me to gain a fuller picture of the client and family needs. As I have said in other journals most of my work is over the phone, I don’t meet most of my clients. This allows me to know where the client is at cognitively. We also have weekly meetings where we compare cases and help each other come up with intervention. This allows a fresh pair of eyes to view the issues. Many times, we focus on the big issue and forget the smaller ones. These meetings permit us others to help see that addressing a lot of the smaller issues make the bigger one appear to be less of a barrier to care. In my personal life I also run workshops for parents to learn what they need to help their children. This enables them to gain the tools to mediate and advocate on their own. I additionally help set up workshops for the social work program with my work with the club. Giving myself and fellow students valuable insight.
Many times, I have to help my clients negotiate health care, the legal system and social service. Several feel overwhelmed dealing with them and their child’s disability. It can be scary for many dealing with numerous organizations. It is my job to help them find their