A presentation at Heritage University @ CBC Week 14 in in Pasco, WA 99301, USA by Jacob Campbell
Location: Online - Zoom
Time: Monday’s from 5:30-8:15
Week 14: 11/23/20
Topic and Content Area: Evaluation and Termination
Reading Assignment: Hepworth et al. (2017) chapter 19
Assignments Due:
Other Important Information: N/A
We do evaluations because we must continually try to improve our professional skills and knowledge.
During the last 25 years the funding for social programs have become scarce and the demands for evaluation has increased. This increases accountability from social programs. Accountability in social work involves being responsible for and answerable to others for the quality and effectiveness of one’s efforts.
There are different things that could get in the way of evaluation:
When a social worker is completing an evaluation there are some major thrusts and important terminology… We can think of it as the Four “E’s” of Evaluation
Evaluation of practice follows the same planned change approach used in social work practice itself.
There are a number of types of evaluations…
There are a number of terms that are associated with evaluation.
Single-Subject Designs are research methods aimed at determining whether or not an intervention was successful.
There are other forms of single system design studies that we can do.
Program evaluation can help determine whether or not one program is more effective or efficient than another. Includes periodic as well as ongoing evaluation of the process and the outcomes.
Program evaluation tools include:
PEER-EBD Participatory Evaluation and Expert Review for Classrooms Serving Students with EBD
The PEER-EBD is a program evaluation that our school district participates in. It is an interesting means for evaluating a program.
It is researched based, reviewing 18 different areas which are indicators of evidence-based practices in four categories (Systems & Philosophy,Structure, Individual Programming: Builds Academic and Behavioral Competence, Climate & Group Process). The questionnaire is quite lengthy to complete.
There are three parts:
There are a few tasks that me must complete in the termination phase.
Whenever possible the worker should plan for termination and involve the client in the process.
There are factors that will change the intensity of reactions.
Factor | More Intense | Less Intense —- | —- | —- Time | Open ended relationships | Time-limited relationships Contact | Frequent contact | Infrequent Problem focus | personal problem focus | Environmental problem focus Outside supports | Limited supports | strong supports Level of intervention | Individual or family system | Organizational or community Emotional content | High level of emotional content | Low level of emotional content Type of group | treatment group | task group
There is sufficient evidence that changes that occur in the context of therapeutic relationships do not necessarily carry over into other areas of client examples… we need to look for ways to make it more generalizable.
Fink-Samnick, E. (2009) The professional resilience paradigm: Defining the next dimension of professional self-care. Professional Case Management 14(6):330-2. DOI: 10.1097/NCM.0b013e3181c3d483
Fink-Samnick describes 20 strategies for self care in her The Professional Resilience Paradigm: The Next Dimension of Professional Self-Care
Value verses devalue your professional self (don’t undersell yourself)
Have positive contacts with colleagues and peers (work with people who motivate you)
Take that break (vacations, lunch… etc)
Pace yourself (Working faster does not always yield increased output)
Achieve validation
Use the power of professional networking (Engage with professional associations & networking sites to - Keep up with new trends and expand horizons & opportunities)
Present with a presence
Laugh at least once a day
Stop to take that long deep breath
Develop a grounding list (favorite song, picture, aroma… etc)
Stop and take 10
Take control & shift activities (walk away and shift gears)
Use creative visualization
De-connect to Re-connect (Give distance to work get closer to life)
Release frustration with a silent meow (They tense their body, open their mouth & let loose!)
Exercise
turn off your professional switch
Think of teflon
Revision honestly and regularly
Share professional resilience with health and human services professionals everywhere
Assessments are in important aspect of social work and direct practice with clients. We should be participating in assessments of our own practice and the interventions that we complete with clients. There are a number of ways about going through that. The agenda for today is to look at the following: