Interview Reflection

III. Summary Impression of Interview. In lots of ways, I feel as though my interview was rather successful; in others, I feel as though I fell short. One thing I pride myself on, has always been my ability to connect with people. My experience with JF however was quite different, particularly my real interview rather than the role-play I did with Brianna. I found I didn’t easily understand or sympathize with issues that JF struggled with, as I’d never been in a situation anywhere near similar to hers. For this reason, I chose to focus more on exploring and learning more about her, to help both of us find common ground and to provide me with background information that would better help me as a social worker, or potential social worker, connect …show more content…
I feel as though my diversity in regard of pulling in different skills was extremely well done. Although execution lacked in some, which I’ll discuss in the next section, I do think I was successful in using basic skills. Before interviewing Brianna as JF, I did a lot of preliminary planning, looking at facts I’d written down about our actual interview with JF using it as though it were case notes from a different social worker. I also prepared a list of questions I’d want to ask and did some serious self-exploration. I believe we’ve discussed this, but senior citizens have never been an interest area of mine. That said, I seemed to struggle some in being more uncomfortable than I’m used to. In reference to major skills such as orienting the client, feedback, exploring and assessment, active listening, and even some goal setting, I tried to keep on track and as relevant and realistic as possible. I feel as though my biggest mistake skills wise, was not following through with the ending skills. I neglected to review the process, or point out endings or even discuss future meetings. In retrospect, I realize this was a large mistake on my part; in order to keep with the role-play I should’ve addressed this and probably have even gone deeper into establishing detailed goals. Because of our lack of time, I believe I really tried to get too many things into our interview. With that however, I do feel as though I used far more skills, and found while reading through my transcript afterwards I used different skills without even meaning too. This gave me hope that social work skills are starting to seep into my dialogue with clients without having to necessarily