Develop a concise BPSS assessment for a client you are currently engaged in work with. Make sure you use the examples in the lecture section and the BPSS Assessment Organization document as a guide for putting this together. The actual assessment should be approximately 1–2 pages single-spaced.
After writing your BPSS assessment, respond to the following:
What does the literature say is the usefulness, importance, and purpose of a BPSS assessment?
Were there any value conflicts between you, the agency, and the client?
Conscious use of self is a critical aspect of professional social work skills. Referring to the professional literature, discuss your understanding of this concept and how you are developing this skill.
Speak to you experience of learning about your practice with your field instructor. What have you learned about yourself? About how you consciously use yourself? How does this process with your field instructor relate to your own developing relationships with your clients?
Please add some content from a process recording that demonstrates your conscious use of self during the engagement/assessment process with a client.
What have you learned about yourself through becoming more conscious of how you use yourself?
How do biases (conscious or unconscious) impact the assumptions and expectations you have about your client?
What goals did you and the client identify? Are these consistent with the client’s needs and the agency’s services? Were there referrals and linkages that had to be made to accommodate the client’s needs? Was the client part of the process of identifying and setting goals? If not, why and with whom did you did you develop goals? How might the outcome of the work be affected by client participation or lack of participation in the goal-setting stage? Were there any ethical dilemmas for you in the goal-setting process? Please integrate the professional literature into your response.
Provide a conclusion that ties the assignment together—do not simply reiterate what you did—and be thoughtful in your concluding statements.
