Listening carefully, concentrating, asking the right questions, and utilizing techniques such as paraphrasing and summarizing also helps social workers to engage and establish trust with clients. Meditation, yoga, physical exercise, setting healthy boundaries, and affirmations are examples of a few of the more widely practiced stress management approaches. 1. Physical security is also important, especially if you keep your passwords saved on your computer. Social workers must have a professional commitment to social work values and ethics, and to continuously developing professional competence. Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. Particularly if you must fill out forms your employer designs or meet case note requirements for insurance billing, its easy to view case notes as nothing more than busy work. Examples of Transference and Countertransference in Therapy, Foolproof Guide to Mental Health Billing Codes. It is important to have patience to work through complex cases and with clients who need longer periods of time to make progress. It is the duty of social workers to advocate for their clients in order to do this, social workers must understand the clients needs. This requires social workers to be very organized and able to prioritize clients' needs in order to effectively manage cases. % In addition to being cognizant of body language and other non-verbal cues, this means communicating appropriately and effectively with clients regardless of cultural background, age, gender, literacy skill level or disability. It can also help guide the session, and ensure both you and your client stay focused on treatment goals. Note also that if there aren't many term adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. Whether these skills are innate or acquired, success in the field requires social workers to continually develop them throughout their career. The purpose of this practice alert is to provide NASW members with a response to this inquiry. Documentation - National Association of Social Workers Social Work Documentation, 2nd Edition - NASW Press
