Interviewing Skills in Social Work and Human Services

Course aim

To enable students to develop and demonstrate effective human service interviewing skills and their appropriate application.

Course content

Students will engage in practice based learning to develop their skills and knowledge in interviewing and the processes associated with human service interviews.They will learn vital skills such as establishing the interview environment, attending, active listening, empathic responding and influencing. Students will learn to manage the focus of an interview and move through the stages of a human service interview such as building an empathic relationship, listening for clients’ stories and strengths, goal setting, re-storying and action. Students will learn to apply these skills to working in diverse contexts and with a range of clients, including children, people with intellectual disabilities and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This course employs a client-centred, anti-oppressive and strength-based framework. Students will also be required to demonstrate self-awareness by critically reflecting on their interviewing skills.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
WELF 1019	Communication Skills in Social Work and Human Services
WELF 1014	Human Service Provision

Corequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
WELF 2012	Human Service Intervention

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 12 weeks
Studio	2 hours x 12 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Online)	3 hours x 12 weeks
External (On-campus workshop)	7.5 hrs per day x 2 days
INTERNAL, MT GAMBIER
Lecture	1 hour x 12 weeks
Studio	2 hours x 12 weeks
INTERNAL, WHYALLA
Lecture	1 hour x 12 weeks
Studio	2 hours x 12 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Continuous assessment, Critical analysis, Skills demonstration

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4S)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.