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How to improve your social work interviewing

Save the Social Worker

What is social work interviewing? Why interview? Who do you interview? How do you interview? How do you interview better? Think about social work interviewing… and your mind might hark back to the scenes in CSI Miami. Is this social work interviewing? What is social work interviewing?

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

This question has been quite difficult to answer, as patients who drop out of treatments are logically rarely available to be interviewed as to why they stopped coming. However, therapists’ subjective perceptions of their own capabilities and their patients’ progress have been shown to be biased. 2009; Cahill et al., 2017; Sharf et al.,

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Finding and Choosing a Therapist for Yourself or Your Child

Parenthood Understood

Finding and Choosing a Therapist for Yourself or your Child: Way More than You Ever Wanted to Know. Finding a good therapist who is a match for you and your particular needs can be frustratingly difficult. I often help people find therapists, and have found that most have similar questions about the process.

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Effective Psychotherapists: Learning & Practicing Skills to Improve Client Outcomes

inSocialWork

Our guest today is Theresa Moyers, PhD, a practitioner, researcher, author and leading scholar in the motivational interviewing approach. Her research focuses on disseminating evidence-based treatments, including motivational interviewing (MI) in the addictions field, as well as identifying active ingredients in MI.

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The Gottman Approach to Couples Counselling

Prosper Health Collective

Individual interviews with each partner where family of origin, history of prior relationships, commitment to the relationship and other factors thatmight impact on the relationship are explored. The Gottman Approach emphasises the therapist facilitating improved connection and communication between couples.

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Over three-quarters of social work roles not offered on part-time basis despite small rise in rate

Community Care

The last point was highlighted by social worker from the North West, who was interviewed for role which was advertised as being open to part-time hours. “I put in a lot of hard work for the interview and it went really well. This is an opportunity and challenge for councils,” said ADASS joint chief executive Sheila Norris.

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

Community Care

Meanwhile, the trust said it had suspended a number of staff pending investigation and commissioned an independent clinical review of the service, which experts interviewed for Panorama said had a “toxic culture” What did Panorama find? Related articles.

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