This small group focuses on the importance of using best practices to ask critical questions about an individual's social history, life history, experiences, strengths, challenges, and goals during an interview to determine the best ways to understand - then translate - that individual's circumstances into a compelling and empathic report. We will draw on best practices for interviewing that include listening for the interviewee’s perspective on and experience of race, culture, class, environment, identity, role, and structure in society to develop a more complete assessment of their biopsychosocial history. We will discuss ways in which this information can be used to create a thematic and compelling report about the individual client’s experiences, past, present, and future. Role playing and practice writing will be part of small group work.
