SOCW 6530 wk 8 peer responses  Respond to the blog posts of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways: Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting. Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own experience. MUST RESPOND TO EACH ONE SEPARATELY CITE EVERYTHING AND FULL REFERENCES  PEER 1: David Jones  An Explanation of Potential Challenges for Evaluation During Your Field Education Experience Evaluation occurs in different ways during the field education experience. I receive evaluation from my field instructor on my performance at the therapy office. I also evaluate the clients that I have interactions with while interning. Both of which can pose separate types of challenges. Receiving constructive criticism can be difficult for some. A potential challenge with receiving the evaluation and criticism from my field instructor would be my inability to do so in a short period and apply it. However, it is imperative to use this feedback to critique and affirm my own practice (Garthwait, 2017, p.36). A potential challenge that I face in my evaluation of the clients is that it may be difficult to measure outcomes in such a short amount of time. We only have 11 weeks in each semester to get involved in our client interventions and many of the circumstances require much longer than that. An Explanation of Personal Action Plans You Might Take to Address Evaluation in Your Field Education Experience I believe an action plan for the potential challenges faced with the evaluation from the instructor is to take notes on the information being shared and allow processing time. I write notes with questions to ensure I understand what is being said, and ask any questions I may have about improving my practice. As far as an action plan for the potential challenge of evaluating the clients, I can conduct a pre/post survey of the clients I was able to work with to see what they have learned and utilized from the class currently and again at the final weeks. I can also follow up with my field instructor after I stop interning, to see how influential I have been on them. reference Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. PEER 2  Candise Mitchell  Sometimes complex social problems require complex interventions, and sometimes they respond well to simple interventions (Thyer, 2013). This simplicity also applies to social worker procedures and protocol. Being a social worker is not an easy task. It is easy to think that it consists of just talking to others, but the interventions, research, and paperwork can be more challenging than a defiant client. Within my internship I have learned a great deal regarding client care and interactions for with adults and couples regarding trauma, domestic violence, couples counseling, anger management, and self-care just to name a few. However, the challenges within my placement largely consisted o ...

1. SOCW 6530 wk 8 peer responses
Respond to the blog posts of three colleagues in one or more of
the following ways:
Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own
experience.
MUST RESPOND TO EACH ONE SEPARATELY CITE
EVERYTHING AND FULL REFERENCES
PEER 1: David Jones
An Explanation of Potential Challenges for Evaluation During
Your Field Education Experience
Evaluation occurs in different ways during the field education
experience. I receive evaluation from my field instructor on my
performance at the therapy office. I also evaluate the clients
that I have interactions with while interning. Both of which can
pose separate types of challenges. Receiving constructive
criticism can be difficult for some. A potential challenge with
receiving the evaluation and criticism from my field instructor
would be my inability to do so in a short period and apply it.
However, it is imperative to use this feedback to critique and
affirm my own practice (Garthwait, 2017, p.36). A potential
challenge that I face in my evaluation of the clients is that it
may be difficult to measure outcomes in such a short amount of
time. We only have 11 weeks in each semester to get involved
in our client interventions and many of the circumstances
require much longer than that.

2. An Explanation of Personal Action Plans You Might Take to
Address Evaluation in Your Field Education Experience
I believe an action plan for the potential challenges faced with
the evaluation from the instructor is to take notes on the
information being shared and allow processing time. I write
notes with questions to ensure I understand what is being said,
and ask any questions I may have about improving my practice.
As far as an action plan for the potential challenge of evaluating
the clients, I can conduct a pre/post survey of the clients I was
able to work with to see what they have learned and utilized
from the class currently and again at the final weeks. I can also
follow up with my field instructor after I stop interning, to see
how influential I have been on them.
reference
Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide
and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson.
PEER 2
Candise Mitchell
Sometimes complex social problems require complex
interventions, and sometimes they respond well to simple
interventions (Thyer, 2013). This simplicity also applies to
social worker procedures and protocol. Being a social worker is
not an easy task. It is easy to think that it consists of just
talking to others, but the interventions, research, and paperwork
can be more challenging than a defiant client. Within my
internship I have learned a great deal regarding client care and
interactions for with adults and couples regarding trauma,
domestic violence, couples counseling, anger management, and
self-care just to name a few. However, the challenges within my

3. placement largely consisted of communication. There was a
serious mix-up regarding timesheets and monthly reports. They
were being completed but due to a lack of communication and
direction, they were being sent to the wrong department. This
caused a lot of tension between several departments regarding
communication, time management, and organization skills. The
fall through of communication was a major challenge that could
have been avoided; however, it is important to understand that
these challenges are teachable moments within internship
placements. The paperwork has been completed and each
department is happy but moving forward I will not rely on the
communication of others but conduct my own department
check-ins and communication to ensure that client cases are
being reported properly.
Thyer, B. A. (2013). Evidence-based practice or evidence-
guided practice: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
[Invited response to Gitterman & Knight’s “evidence-guided
practice”]. Families in Society, 94(2), 79–84.
PEER 3 Seshna Ritchie
Reliable and valid standardized instruments, such as the
geriatric depression scale, are not commonly used by hospice
social workers (Parker Oliver, Wittenberg-Lyles, Washington,
& Sehrawat, 2009). Unlike the numeric pain scale or other tools
for pain assessment supporting the nurses, hospice social
workers have not agreed upon ways to measure the psychosocial
issues facing their clients. While some within the hospice social
work community have developed standardized assessment tools
--the Social Work Assessment Tool (Reese et al., 2006) is one
example--their adoption has been limited. The lack of
standardized assessment often results in an unfocused
intervention (Parker Oliver, et al., 2009). Unfocused
interventions can leave hospice social workers with an

4. ambiguous identity on the team, unable to articulate their role
in terms understood by the medical team members, and unable
to determine the effectiveness of their work, and difficultly in
evaluating the social work scope of work in hospice. At Infinity
Hospice, data for the work social workers do are tracked
through a metric system. Each time the social worker provides
therapeutic emotional support or helps to connect the patient to
community resources we document in our EMR system the task
completed and update the metric which is measured in
percentages 0-100%. The social worker records and updates
their percentages after each interaction, the issues with this type
of measurement tool are that it does not fully capture the efforts
done by the social worker as typically 100 is never reach by
time of death. However, the company reports the data to
Medicare to stay in compliance. Evaluation is done differently
in hospice social work, and we do not complete individual
evaluations but other documents and records to measure
outcomes overall as an interdisciplinary team that met the Plan
of Care for the patient upon death or discharge.
Reference
Parker Oliver D, Wittenberg-Lyles E, Washington K, Sehrawat
S. (2009). Social Work role in hospice pain management: A
national survey. Journal of Social Work in End of Life and
Palliative Care. 2009;5(1–2):61–74.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814550/
Reese DJ, Raymer M, Orloff SF, Gerbino S, Valade R, Dawson
S, et al. (2006). The Social Work Assessment Tool (SWAT)
Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care.
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