Although each branch of practice has sets of skills that pertain to it, an important part of social work practice is to be able to adapt skills to competently work with clients of special populations. One of those special populations is immigrants. When it comes to working with immigrants it is important to be aware of how to adapt practice skills to work with clients because of factors such as possible language barriers and different cultural norms. In micro practice with immigrants it is important to be aware of the differences they may have from any other client. One of the first things that is important in working with individuals in this situation is to be made aware if they are not fully competent to speak in a language that you understand.
