Planning and Intervention
Write treatment plans
Include clients in the development of treatement plans
Observe case presentions by other agency personnel
Identify theories underlying commonly used interventions utilized in agency
Develop curriculum for client group
Facilitate committee meetings
Facilitate therapeutic groups for clients
Revise treatment plans
Articulate reasons for selection of interventions
Termination and Evaluation
Manage client cases through the entire helping process from assessment to termination
Apply agency policies of termination to helping process
Terminate client interventions according to accepted practice guidelines (e.g.,
summarizing progress, empowerment, avoiding dependence, making appropriate
referrals)
Ulitilize measurement tools to evaluate client progress toward agree upon goals and
objects
Solicit feedback from supervisor regarding practice skills
Design and utilize methods for soliciting client feedback regarding services
Understanding Social Problems
Summarize agency purpose and mission
Research statistics regarding causes, incidence, severity and consequences of issues
addressed by agency
Attend meetings of organizations whose understanding of these problems provides a
different perspective or view point than held by agency
Make a presentation on a social problem addressed by the agency to a local service
organization or student group
Compare local, state, and national statistics regarding incidence and nature of problems
addressed by the agency
Policy
Read state and federal laws guiding services of practicum agency
Read state and federal laws pertaining to clients served by the agency
Assess social policies’s effects on clients served by the agency
Observe legislative functions
Prepare and give written and/or oral testimony at legislative hearings
Assist advocacy groups