Carol Dorr – författare

Students often cannot relate to master clinicians in interviews, and short video clips appear rehearsed and do not provide much context for understanding the interview. In contrast, Social Work Live does more than just teach interviewing skills; through process recordings, it helps demonstrate how to link what is said in an interview to different theories and practice skills. Carol Dorr analyzes each interview and goes into sufficient depth to tease out many aspects of practice that students need to understand, and show how to approach the client interview and link it to different theories and practice skills relevant to their own client interventions. Scoial Work Live includes five video-recorded interviewa which allow students to identify with in an interactive manner.

Social Work Live accesses multiple approaches to student learning: experiential, visual, and auditory. Carol Dorr emphasizes the important role of self-reflection and critical thinking in social work practice by paying special attention to process recordings and observing how the social worker reflects on her own reactions in the moment with the client. Students also can appreciate the important role of reflecting on their own interventions with clients after their sessions, acknowledging what went well and what could have been done better. Social Work Live encourages a constructivist perspective to practice that calls attention to the many possible interpretations and approaches to working with clients. The classroom provides an ideal opportunity for students to explore with each other different ways of making meaning out of clients'' stories and intervening with them.