Core Competency Ten:

Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate

with individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
Taylor Barber
Competency Ten Presentation

Practice Behaviors
10.1

Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals,

families, group, organizations, and communities.

Application: Before meetings with students, everyone who will be

present for the meeting brings notes, classroom info,
observations, and the students folder in order to be prepared.

10.2
Use empathy and other
interpersonal skills.
Application: Show empathy
when working with grief and
loss group

Practice Behaviors
10.3

10.4
Collect, organize, and
interpret client data.

Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired

outcomes.

Application: Creating goals for the student, family, and teachers

to accomplish.

Application: Interpret
students data such as
grades, attendance and
cumulative folder to
determine what the student
needs in order to be
successful.

Practice Behaviors
10.5

Assess client strengths and limitations.

Application: While informing the student on what they need to fix,

adding in good qualities about them is helpful to keep them
motivated.

Ex: giving the student jobs to do before class.

10.6
Develop mutually agreed-on
intervention goals and
objectives.
Application: Meeting with
parent and student to decide
what the child needs to
improve on and how it will
happen.

Practice Behaviors
10.7

Select appropriate intervention strategies

Application: For a student who was disruptive in class and being

defiant, the intervention was to create a consistent schedule for
the student and not let him leave class, and encourage the
parents to not check him out. Each teacher developed an
individual plan for their class with him.

10.8
Initiate actions to achieve
organizational goals.
Application: Scheduling a
meeting for the parents to
meet with administrators due
to students behavior.

Practice Behaviors
10.9

Implement prevention interventions that enhance client

capacities.

Application: Encourage student who has tendency to fight with

classmates to walk away from the situation and talk to the
counselor to prevent an altercation.

10.10

Help clients resolve

problems.
Application: Give students
guidance and support they
need to solve their issues.
Ex: a student wanting to be
placed in another home visits
my supervisor to discuss his
options and how to ask his
social worker.

Practice Behaviors
10.11

10.12
Facilitate transitions and
endings.

Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients.

Application: Truancy Mediation; decide whether the fault lies with

the parent or child. Some cases my supervisor advocates for the
parent to show their efforts in improving attendance.

Application: students with

504 plans that come from
elementary school may
transition out of needing
accommodations. School
social worker is responsible
for monitoring that.

Practice Behavior
10.13

Social workers critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate

interventions.

Application: Reviewing intervention strategies to decide if any

improvement has been made.
Grief group evaluation to decide if the students have benefitted
from it.