. Jane seems to understand that there will be four more meetings to see if she has adjusted to the move. In our last meeting I will ask Jane to fill out an evaluation form in order to gain insight as to how well our social worker and services were utilized, and if their performance was appropriate and useful.3.After the first week, I recommended that Jane be able to live in a supervised apartment if she is able to work with me to gain employment. Jane has a great personality and is willing to work toward her goals. Jane would like to apologize for her behavior and we would both appreciate some time to work on the current issue.4.Active listening is an important aspect of the social work profession because it enables us to understand thoughts, feelings, values, behaviors, and other ideas. There are two types of active listening; content and feeling. Content listening is the subject matter of the conversation and listening for feeling deals with emotional aspect of the conversation. Active listening includes non-verbal gestures, such as nodding or shaking your head, body posture, eye contact, and meta-language. For example, if I were doing an intake of a woman who came into a domestic abuse shelter, I would want to listen to her story and interject with some questions. I would want to get concrete information about the incidents and what causes the outburst, but I would also want to listen for how she’s feeling. I believe active listening is a very useful tool and it’s comforting to have someone listen without making judgments. I would also want to reframe what the women are saying. Reframing is finding a positive in a negative situation and finding strengths or underlying problems. In this case, I might tell her that she is not alone in this matter and she shouldn’t have to fear her decision to come for help. Actually it is a courageous step in stopping the violence cycle and we are here to guide in her de...
