To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the section titled Strengths-Based Approach to the Helping Process in Chapter 1 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination.
Review the section titled Questioning in Chapter 4 of your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on page 77, particularly the examples of questions after each appropriate use of questioning.
Review the article titled Implementation of a Strengths-Based Approach in the Practice of Child and Youth Care.
Review the article titled Learning Solution-Focused Interviewing Skills: BSW Student Voices.
Consider the following scenario:
A woman has come to you to see if she qualifies for a program that offers reduced child care fees to lower income parents. You need to determine her income from a variety of sources to see if she meets program criteria. The woman tells you she is not married and that she is working as a cashier at a convenience store. She seems nervous, however, and is reluctant to go beyond these bare facts.
By Day 7
The Assignment:
Using the scenario provided, submit by Day 7 a 1- to 2-page paper that includes the following:
A set of two strengths-based questions that will help you achieve the goal of obtaining the information you need
A set of two strengths-based questions that will help you achieve the goal of focusing the interview (you and the interviewee) on the pertinent issue
For each set of questions, an explanation of your strategy for reaching the goal listed
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