SOCW 6530 wk 6 peer responses  Respond to the blog posts of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways: Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own experience. Make a suggestion to your colleague’s post. MUST RESPOND TO EACH ONE SEPARATELY CITE EVERYTHING AND FULL REFERENCES  PEER 1 Alicia Gomez Intervention barriers I have overcome within my field experience have been clients who shut down and give minimal to no engagement and clients who would not practice any skills and shut down any and all suggestions. For clients who gave minimal information I strongly utilized my active listening skills with open ended questions and motivational interviewing techniques. Guiding the client to reflect on their statements and process on their own provides them with the ability to problem solve on their own and provides a sense of fulfillment when they do overcome their own barriers. For clients who did not engage their skills outside of session to cope I adjusted the treatment plan to do all skills in session and support the client in identifying their own support systems outside of the office who can hold them accountable so they have more follow through. I found it is important to assess the process consistently, this means assessing not just at intake and transition planning but also frequently at a monthly basis completing such assessments. A field experience goal of mine is to learn more about the varying assessments that pertain to the assigned diagnosis to provide clients and ensure I am providing informed care. PEER 2 Candise Mitchell          There are very few guarantees in life. This applies to the implementation and outcome of interventions we create for clients. Challenges can arise consisting of difficulties with follow through, availability, commitment, or they may change their mind regarding complying with the intervention. Within my field placement, there has been a few cases where the client was not committed to the internship due to time or feeling as though what is the point of continuing. An example of this would be a case for a couple working though their marriage. They were hoping to work through their communication issues but were not receptive to completing the intervention outlined. There was always an excuse regarding time, procrastination, or it being the other person’s fault. The intervention was great and was supported by my supervisor; however, if the client does not commitment to their interventions, then there will be no success. This is an ultimate challenge for a social worker; creating an effective intervention but the client just refusing to participate yet want the positive outcome regardless.          Successful implementation in practice requires knowledge of the context and the social mechanisms and processes through which an intervention works (Hansen & Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, 2016). This is just an eloquent way to say that it is important to understand the interventions we create and h.

1. SOCW 6530 wk 6 peer responses
Respond to the blog posts of three colleagues in one or more of
the following ways:
Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own
experience.
Make a suggestion to your colleague’s post.
MUST RESPOND TO EACH ONE SEPARATELY CITE
EVERYTHING AND FULL REFERENCES
PEER 1 Alicia Gomez
Intervention barriers I have overcome within my field
experience have been clients who shut down and give minimal
to no engagement and clients who would not practice any skills
and shut down any and all suggestions. For clients who gave
minimal information I strongly utilized my active listening
skills with open ended questions and motivational interviewing
techniques. Guiding the client to reflect on their statements and
process on their own provides them with the ability to problem
solve on their own and provides a sense of fulfillment when
they do overcome their own barriers. For clients who did not
engage their skills outside of session to cope I adjusted the
treatment plan to do all skills in session and support the client
in identifying their own support systems outside of the office
who can hold them accountable so they have more follow
through. I found it is important to assess the process
consistently, this means assessing not just at intake and
transition planning but also frequently at a monthly basis
completing such assessments. A field experience goal of mine is

2. to learn more about the varying assessments that pertain to the
assigned diagnosis to provide clients and ensure I am providing
informed care.
PEER 2
Candise Mitchell
There are very few guarantees in life. This applies to the
implementation and outcome of interventions we create for
clients. Challenges can arise consisting of difficulties with
follow through, availability, commitment, or they may change
their mind regarding complying with the intervention. Within
my field placement, there has been a few cases where the client
was not committed to the internship due to time or feeling as
though what is the point of continuing. An example of this
would be a case for a couple working though their marriage.
They were hoping to work through their communication issues
but were not receptive to completing the intervention outlined.
There was always an excuse regarding time, procrastination, or
it being the other person’s fault. The intervention was great and
was supported by my supervisor; however, if the client does not
commitment to their interventions, then there will be no
success. This is an ultimate challenge for a social worker;
creating an effective intervention but the client just refusing to
participate yet want the positive outcome regardless.
Successful implementation in practice requires knowledge
of the context and the social mechanisms and processes through
which an intervention works (Hansen & Tjørnhøj-Thomsen,
2016). This is just an eloquent way to say that it is important to
understand the interventions we create and how this
intervention can be applied and tailored to the clients. That is
how I approach every intervention I give to my clients because
it is important that they feel and know that the effect I put into

3. their work is for their individual benefit
References
Hansen, H. P., & Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T. (2016). Meeting the
Challenges of Intervention Research in Health Science: An
Argument for a Multimethod Research Approach. The patient,
9(3), 193–200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-015-0153-9
PEER 3
Seshna Ritchie
As a social worker, we must view interventions on a micro and
macro level. The profession of social work examines social
problems from an ecosystems perspective, understanding the
interplay between micro and macro factors in terms of
developing a social problem (Garthwait, 2016, p. 88). In my
field experience, I have had the opportunity to engage with
clients during assessment and intervention. I have not, however,
had much opportunity to engage with intervention at the
community level. As social workers, we must learn to recognize
and address social problems that affect our clients (Garthwait,
2017). Some challenges I do come across often is engaging my
clients in practice. This is largely in part, in hospice social
work, the clinician is called upon to solve a variety of client
problems involving micro and mezzo levels but at times,
interactions with the actual patient are limited due to terminal
illness and the patient’s declining health leading to limited
comprehension. I try to address challenges in intervention and
engagement, opting to working to serve the family as a whole
rather than focusing on just the prognosis of the client.
Reference
Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide
and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:

4. Pearson.