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Social Worker Interview Report

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Social Worker Interview While studying the field of social work it is important to interview several different social workers in different areas to determine what area interests you. I had the opportunity to interview Ashley Decker from Family Access to Integrated Recovery (FAIR) on Friday September 4, 2014. Throughout this paper you will learn more about Ashley as a licensed social worker, FAIR, and my reflection on the interview. Ashley Decker has her BSW from the University of Cincinnati and is currently attending the University of Cincinnati to get her MSW. She currently holds her LSW and is working on her CDCA (Chemical Dependency Counseling Assistant) certification and will have it completed within the next year. Ashley is a clinical …show more content…

She would pretend to be a therapist with her Barbie’s as a child. Her father died when she was five years old so she went through therapy herself and saw how much it helped her. She decided she was going to become a psychologist thinking that was the only profession that could counsel people. It wasn’t until she had to do a very similar assignment and interviewed her fiancés aunt which she thought was a psychologist, she was actually a social worker, that Ashley realized what she actually wanted to do was social work. Ashley loved that social work was more social based and how people go through traumas or other things that build their addictions/problems and not the idea that it was all related to their brain which is what psychology was teaching …show more content…

("FAIR", 2014) FAIR is a program of the Central Clinic and a department of MHAP. Within FAIR itself there are no direct “programs” or “departments” simply just two main positions. There are assessors which provide Triage of referred cases; Emergency triage and evaluations; Diagnostic Assessments and Care Managers which provide connection to community services; Care Management oversight; Case Consultation for JFS workers; Collaboration with community service providers. To be an assessor at FAIR you must have your LISW and PCC-S “S” meaning they have their supervision hours and to be a Care Manager you must you’re your LSW. FAIR also has a transitional case manager for severe mental health clients to manage their cases closely for a temporary time frame and a “teacher” to go back and forth between FAIR and JFS to make sure they both are on the same

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