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Managing the Role of Home Visitor, Part 2

Managing the Role of Home Visitor, Part 2. April 20 , 2012 Maggie Brett, L.C.S.W. mmibrett@gmail.com. Agenda. Check-In Factors that can enhance or complicate your role as home visitor: culture prior professional experience personal experience Case studies Reflection.

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Managing the Role of Home Visitor, Part 2

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  1. Managing the Role of Home Visitor, Part 2 April 20, 2012 Maggie Brett, L.C.S.W. mmibrett@gmail.com

  2. Agenda • Check-In • Factors that can enhance or complicate your role as home visitor: culture prior professional experience personal experience • Case studies • Reflection

  3. Roles of the Home Visitor • Social support • Resource provider • Mentor/Role model • Literacy teacher • Parenting coach • Expert on infant and child development and parent/child relationships

  4. Reflection 1 Reflect on a time when culture had an impact on your work; one time in a positive way and one time in a negative way.

  5. Cultural Competence • Knowledge is vital in understanding clients and informing your practice • But how about openness and respect? Is that limited to certain cultures? • Cultural competence vs. Cultural humility

  6. Reflection 2 Reflect on a time when your professional experience hindered your work with a client, and a time when it enhanced your work.

  7. Drawing on Professional Experience • We develop a body of knowledge over time from our work with clients; what worked, what didn’t, why it did or didn’t • More reflection yields more knowledge • When is experience harmful?

  8. Reflection 3 Reflect on a time when a personal experience hindered your work, and a time when it enhanced your work.

  9. Professional Use of Self “Because social work practice involves the conscious and deliberate use of oneself, you become the medium through which knowledge, attitudes, and skill are conveyed….You might have the most noble and idealistic of motives, intending only to serve others. Nonetheless, if you lack self-awareness, you may unwittingly enact emotional or behavioral patterns that harm the very people you hope to help.” --Cournoyer, 2000

  10. Use of self • Self-awareness is only the first step; use of self is the goal • Use of self done well is the foundation of a solid working relationship; done poorly leads to a shallow or fragile relationship • Empathy is vicarious introspection. –Kohut

  11. Reflection 4 Describe what you consider to be an ideal family; structure, resources, living situation, etc. What does an ideal mother look like? How about an ideal father?

  12. Case Consultation

  13. Capture your Thoughts (York-Barr, et al, 2001)

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