Client Systems Role Play and Final Project Overview Document
Throughout this course, you examine the steps of the Generalist Intervention Model (GIM) and the specific practice skills necessary to accomplish those steps. In your 3- part Final Project, you first identify a client system based on the level of social work practice you select. You also demonstrate your understanding of the GIM and these practice skills through your development of a video script of a client session you conceptualize.
The second part of this project requires you to enlist the help of friends, peers, or colleagues to role play your interaction with the client system, with you acting as the social worker based on the script you developed. This video role play will assist you in identifying the social work practice areas where you are strong as well as the areas where you might need improvement. It also allows you to receive feedback from your colleagues and your instructor with regard to your GIM and practice skill implementation techniques.
In the third and final part of this Final Project, you are called upon to reflect on your experience in the planning and execution of your role play script and video. You also review your colleagues' videos and select one to offer a critique of areas in which your colleague did well and areas in which your colleague could improve. This process is an important aspect of the social work practice education.
Part 1: Client System Role Play Script
For Part 1 of your Final Project, you develop and submit a script of a client session. This script is the basis for the 3- to 5-minute role-play video you will record in Part 2 of your Final Project. For the participants in your role play, select a client system such as an individual, a couple, a family, a group, or representatives from an organization or community. Then, consider the characteristics of the client system you selected (micro, mezzo, or macro) and identify the presenting concern you plan to address. Draft the dialogue and the visual interaction between the social worker and the client system that demonstrates one step in the GIM and at least two practice techniques/skills you plan to use in this video role play.
Role Play Script (2-5 pages):
Your role play script should include:
- A description of the client system (depending on the client level you selected - micro, mezzo, or macro).
- An explanation of the presenting concern.
- A description of the client session scene in which you implement the GIM step and practice skills you selected for working with this client system.
- A detailed description of the actual dialogue that takes place between you, as the social worker, and the client(s). Note that the dialogue should depict the techniques you would use to implement the GIM step and the practice skills you selected for the client interaction.
- A description of the visual cues that both the social worker and the client might exhibit during the interaction that support the GIM step and practice skills you selected.
- An explanation of the techniques you might use to implement the GIM step and practice skills you selected and why.
The questions on the template needs to be answered:
Client Systems Role Play Script Template
Date:
Role Play Title:
1. Agency Setting and services provided at agency:
2. Client Profile (demographic details, practice-level):
3. Presenting Concern:
4. Scene Description from the Client Session:
5. Practice Skills or Behaviors Demonstrated in Role-Play:
Audio (dialogue) Video (client and social worker visual cues) Social worker practice skills and or behavior
This column should include a verbatim script of the dialogue between the social worker (you) and client.
Example:
Social Worker: Hello Eboni, it is nice to see you. What brings you to the agency today?
Eboni: I think I have made a decision about my pregnancy but I don't know how to tell my parents and my boyfriend. This column should describe the non-verbal communication in the interaction.
Example:
Social worker smiles and gestures for Eboni to sit down in the empty chair across from the social worker's desk.
Eboni slowly pulls back the chair, sits down, and then looks at the floor. This column should include the skills you are employing to respond to the material arising in the first two columns