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Today's Session On Interviewing Skills

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Interviewing Skills Today’s session on interviewing skills covers foundation skills such as questioning, paraphrasing, probing deeper, the use of self-disclosure and closing the interview. Interviewing plays a very important role within social work because social workers spend more time carrying out interviews. One area that was covered extensively was the use of self-disclosure. The use of self-disclosure can help the interviewer to feel more empathic and in tune with the interviewee. However, this should be a skill that should not be used often as over-sharing can be negative. A member of the group gave an example of how a colleague had disclosed to a service user with schizophrenia that he had the similar illness. The service user viewed …show more content…

Communication involves not only talking but also observation. An issue that was discussed extensively in today’s session is the importance of acknowledging our ignorance of other people when we engage in communication with them. We are prejudged and the moment we meet other people, we start to apply our preconceived thoughts to them. But social workers are to listen to people they work with in order to understand them better. Social workers must be careful not to draw a conclusion about people as they could be wrong. There is a huge amount of contact in social work is with other professionals and other people who play important roles in the lives of service users. Therefore, communication skills are very important. It enables social workers to learn to understand the meaning of the message being transferred and to decode and relate back what is …show more content…

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