Importance of Project/Issue:
This project was very important for the clinical aspects of Social Work. It was a tool that 
allowed me to fully assess the client and her circumstances to better understand how to 
advocate and provide appropriate resources, diagnosis, and treatment plans. It allowed 
me to better support her by understanding what she was struggling with and then 
allowing me to present with the treatment of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and 
how it would benefit her for now and in the long run. By completing this project it 
allowed me to understand her bio-psycho-social-spiritual and understand what kind of 
diagnosis and treatment would benefit and fit best for her based on her experiences and 
struggles. 

Skills, Competencies &/or Capabilities Learned: 

The intake, Treatment Plan and Rationale, and Clinical Intervention allowed me to gain 
knowledge and experience in meeting several social work practice behaviors: 

• Readily identify as social work professionals
• Develop, manage and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients within the 
  person-in-environment, strengths perspectives.
• Apply ethical decision making to issues specific to clinical social work
• Identify and use knowledge of relationship dynamics, including power 
  differentials.
• Engage in reflective practice.
• Identify and articulate clients’ strengths and vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate, select, and implement appropriate multidimensional assessment, 
  diagnostic, intervention, and practice evaluation tools.
• Identify and use practitioner/client differences from a strength perspective.
• Use knowledge of the effects of oppression, discrimination, and historical trauma 
  on client and client systems to guide treatment planning & intervention.
• Use the evidence-based practice process in clinical assessment and intervention 
  with clients.
• Consult with medical professionals, as needed, to confirm diagnosis, and/or to 
  monitor medication in the treatment process. 
• Develop intervention plans to accomplish systemic change.