Social Work Initial Meeting Role Play — Transcript

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1. 0:01Oh, Jennifer? Hi. Hi. Yes, I'm Alex. Hi.
2. 0:05I am the social work counselor here at
3. 0:07Jacoba University. Why don't you come in
4. 0:08and
5. 0:09get started, okay?
6. 0:10Sure. Thank you.
7. 0:11Go ahead and go to the left and take a
8. 0:13seat at the very top of the table.
9. 0:17How are you today? I'm good. How are
10. 0:19you? I'm doing good, thank you.
11. 0:22Okay. So,
12. 0:25Jennifer, why don't you tell me a little
13. 0:27bit about why you're here today?
14. 0:29Okay. So, I'm 23 years old. I am a
15. 0:32college student. I'm taking 18 credit
16. 0:35hours. I work two jobs.
17. 0:38And I'm considering taking on another
18. 0:41class, so I'm a little stressed out and
19. 0:44need to figure out my time a lot better.
20. 0:46Definitely, definitely. Okay, is this
21. 0:49the first time that you've ever sought
22. 0:50out counseling through the social work
23. 0:51program? Yes. Okay.
24. 0:55So, why don't we go over just a little
25. 0:56bit about what we do here
26. 0:59as the student counselors here at this
27. 1:01at the university?
28. 1:03I mean, we can do a range of things. We
29. 1:05can cover
30. 1:07um
31. 1:08stress management, things like that.
32. 1:11So, but what we're going to do is we're
33. 1:12going to start with our policies here.
34. 1:15This is for you to keep and I will Well,
35. 1:18actually, not to keep, but I will need
36. 1:19it signed back from you for your
37. 1:20informed consent. Okay.
38. 1:21Okay. Um you can just bring that back
39. 1:23next time, but we'll go over a little
40. 1:24bit about what it is.
41. 1:26It mainly just goes over
42. 1:29the policies and procedures here as the
43. 1:31student counselors,
44. 1:33kind of the relationship that we have
45. 1:35with our clients.
46. 1:36There is, of course, the policy the
47. 1:38confidentiality policy that's in there.
48. 1:41That just states that anything that we
49. 1:43talk about in here that is strictly
50. 1:45between us. It doesn't leave anybody It
51. 1:47doesn't leave this room. The only person
52. 1:50that would have access to it is myself
53. 1:51or my supervisor should they need it.
54. 1:54And then, obviously, of course, if
55. 1:56there's any talk of harm towards
56. 1:58yourself or anybody else, I am required
57. 2:00to report that as well.
58. 2:01Do you have any questions about that?
59. 2:03No, I think it's all here and I can read
60. 2:06through this, right? Yes.
61. 2:08Okay. Yeah, take your time read through
62. 2:09it. If you have any questions, feel free
63. 2:11to contact me and we can go over
64. 2:12everything. Okay. Okay. All right,
65. 2:14Jennifer, why don't you tell me a little
66. 2:15bit about yourself?
67. 2:17Uh so, like I mentioned, I'm just
68. 2:19working the two jobs, um
69. 2:22possibly taking on another class, so
70. 2:24that'd be 21 credits. Um
71. 2:28It's
72. 2:29frustrating. I live off campus, so I do
73. 2:31need to work.
74. 2:32Um
75. 2:33How many jobs do you work? Two.
76. 2:35Two jobs, wow.
77. 2:36Yeah. Okay.
78. 2:37Yeah, they're both part-time, don't do
79. 2:39very many hours, but it gets me through.
80. 2:41Mhm. Um
81. 2:43one goes more with my major, the other
82. 2:45one is
83. 2:46just for work, but
84. 2:48uh I mean, I love my major and I like
85. 2:51having a house, so you know, that would
86. 2:53probably be a good thing to have. Right.
87. 2:55But it it just gets stressful on how to
88. 2:58situate things. Mhm.
89. 3:00And then I get like anxiety about it and
90. 3:02panic attack like and then I panic about
91. 3:05that cuz I don't have the time to be
92. 3:06panicking and Of course. Okay. So. Yeah.
93. 3:09So, you said that you said you're living
94. 3:11off campus, correct? Are you living by
95. 3:13yourself, with parents?
96. 3:14No, I do live with my boyfriend, so we
97. 3:17split the bills. Oh, okay. So, you have
98. 3:19an apartment as well.
99. 3:21Okay.
100. 3:22Why don't you tell me a little bit about
101. 3:23your major?
102. 3:24Sure. So, I'm double majoring in social
103. 3:27work and Spanish. Okay. Um
104. 3:30So, I want to be where you are someday.
105. 3:32Great. Very cool. Well, this will be a
106. 3:34good hopefully a good experience for you
107. 3:36as well.
108. 3:39So,
109. 3:41let's see.
110. 3:43Now, are you um
111. 3:45you said that you're working the two
112. 3:46jobs.
113. 3:48What kind of time Like, how many hours
114. 3:50do you work a week? So, for one job, I
115. 3:53only work Saturday and Sunday and
116. 3:55sometimes on Monday if they need me, but
117. 3:57that's 8-hour shifts, so over there at
118. 4:00the Max 24. Okay. And then for my second
119. 4:04job, I am a disabled or a disability
120. 4:07companion. So, I work
121. 4:10from Thursday to Sunday and it ranges
122. 4:13between 1 to like 5 hours. Okay.
123. 4:16Depending just on what we're doing that
124. 4:18day. Okay. So, I mainly hear that you're
125. 4:20working over the weekends. Yeah. So, is
126. 4:22the rest of the time just school?
127. 4:25Yeah. Classes, things like that. Okay,
128. 4:26so what do you do for fun? Um
129. 4:31Well, there's time for fun.
130. 4:33Um
131. 4:35really in my free time, I feel so bad
132. 4:37because my dogs are locked up all the
133. 4:38time like in the house, so we go to the
134. 4:41park and stuff and I try and get my
135. 4:43readings done for class while we're
136. 4:44there. Okay. So, I don't I'm really
137. 4:47That's one thing I'm really bad about is
138. 4:50relaxing. I'm not very good or know when
139. 4:53to stop something cuz I'm getting
140. 4:55frustrated. So, that's something I
141. 4:57really do need to work on.
142. 5:00Um
143. 5:01I do like to read, but then with so much
144. 5:03readings I have for all my classes, it's
145. 5:06kind of a
146. 5:07killjoy. Yeah. Right. Even though it's
147. 5:09something that I like personally
148. 5:11reading.
149. 5:12Like, my eyes hurt.
150. 5:14What kind of stuff do you like to read?
151. 5:15Um
152. 5:17I like fiction stuff. Like, it'll be
153. 5:20random magical mermaids. Okay. Random
154. 5:23stuff, right?
155. 5:25That makes total sense. All right.
156. 5:28What kind of dogs do you have? I have a
157. 5:30husky, German shepherd, and a
158. 5:31Rottweiler. So, they're massive dogs.
159. 5:34Very cool, very hairy, right? That's too
160. 5:37fun. Well, that does sound like a lot of
161. 5:38fun going to the park with them and I I
162. 5:41can see that working perfectly to take
163. 5:42your mind off things, can't you?
164. 5:44Um
165. 5:45So, typically, how much homework would
166. 5:48you say that you do during the week?
167. 5:50Um so, my Spanish class assigns at least
168. 5:53three to like six assignments every day
169. 5:56we have class, so that's Monday,
170. 5:57Wednesday, Friday. So, that could add up
171. 6:00to
172. 6:0218 assignments in a week just for
173. 6:03Spanish.
174. 6:04Wow.
175. 6:05Okay. And then, um
176. 6:08my other classes, they're not
177. 6:11terrible kind of assignments. Like, I
178. 6:13can get them done. It's just the
179. 6:15readings are a little bit like a lot and
180. 6:18they're heavy loads.
181. 6:20So, that's often hard to get by. Right.
182. 6:23I try and break it up. Like, I have
183. 6:24certain days for like certain classes,
184. 6:29but I don't feel like I've managed it
185. 6:32enough.
186. 6:33Like,
187. 6:34so when I'm reading a chapter, it's hard
188. 6:36for me to sit there and read the whole
189. 6:38chapter at once.
190. 6:40I get way too distracted and like
191. 6:42Right. have to move, but then
192. 6:45I
193. 6:46continue doing other stuff instead of
194. 6:48finishing the chapter. I think that's
195. 6:50like my hardest part. I don't know how
196. 6:52to break it up throughout my day. Right.
197. 6:54So, it's kind of like you start to work
198. 6:55on it and then you want to take a little
199. 6:57break and then you get distracted, which
200. 6:59kind of leads you to further getting a
201. 7:01little bit behind, it sounds like.
202. 7:03Yeah. Okay. Well, that unfortunately,
203. 7:05that's kind of normal.
204. 7:07You know, I
205. 7:08we There's a couple different ways that
206. 7:10you can do it. Like, obviously, a lot of
207. 7:12people do like to try to push through,
208. 7:15but definitely taking a break to kind of
209. 7:16just relax and take it easy and break
210. 7:19things up a little bit better is good.
211. 7:21So, that's one of the things that we
212. 7:22will definitely work on.
213. 7:25You know, we kind of teach management
214. 7:26skills, time management, breaking things
215. 7:28up like that. Um and then, of course,
216. 7:31working together with your schedule to
217. 7:33get everything taken care of.
218. 7:35Why don't you tell me a little bit about
219. 7:37home life? How is that going for you? Do
220. 7:39you live by yourself here? Are you
221. 7:41Um no, I do live with my boyfriend, but
222. 7:44our schedules are like opposite. And
223. 7:46when we are home
224. 7:48and we have homework, we usually do them
225. 7:50in separate rooms cuz we know we get
226. 7:52distracted and we'll start talking.
227. 7:54Right. So, he usually stays in the
228. 7:56living room and I stay in the bedroom
229. 7:59and we get our homework done that way.
230. 8:01He works, too, so we have really
231. 8:05like conflicting schedules, but so it's
232. 8:07not a problem.
233. 8:08Um
234. 8:10Uh we or I do go home a lot to
235. 8:13Albuquerque to go see my mom.
236. 8:16Um I'm her only child, so it's hard for
237. 8:18her to be so away from me, which puts
238. 8:21another time strain on me because then
239. 8:23that takes away from me studying, but I
240. 8:25have to go see her. Right. So. Okay. So,
241. 8:29you don't have any other family here
242. 8:30then? Uh no, not family. I have lots of
243. 8:33friends here, but
244. 8:34Do you get to spend a lot of time with
245. 8:35them? Um we try. We have um
246. 8:40homework and American Horror Story
247. 8:42nights on Tuesdays. Oh, nice. So,
248. 8:45we try and do that. Um
249. 8:51Other than that, I really don't cuz my
250. 8:54afternoons are kind of taken
251. 8:56with the other job or with homework.
252. 8:59Um
253. 9:00but I do try to like go and see my
254. 9:02friends, but then like the I decided to
255. 9:06take one weekend off. We went to like a
256. 9:08football game, we went to just different
257. 9:10stuff around town and then that setting
258. 9:13of anxiety and panic like set back in
259. 9:15like now you're a whole weekend behind
260. 9:17like now you need to get it together.
261. 9:19So, then I started pushing myself more
262. 9:21to catch up and I felt like I just kept
263. 9:24getting further and further behind.
264. 9:26So, I feel like I can't
265. 9:28take the time off to go hang out with my
266. 9:30friends because I can't fall behind.
267. 9:33Right. Okay.
268. 9:34Do you guys ever um
269. 9:36And so, it sounds like even though
270. 9:38you're wanting to spend time together,
271. 9:40you know, you're afraid that it's going
272. 9:41to push you behind or sometimes it does
273. 9:42and that just creates more anxiety and
274. 9:44depression.
275. 9:45Um
276. 9:46you said that you guys do study nights
277. 9:47together where you watch horror American
278. 9:49Horror Story.
279. 9:50Yeah. Oh, okay.
280. 9:51Um
281. 9:52do you think that there's other times
282. 9:53that you guys could get together to do
283. 9:55these things? Maybe not necessarily like
284. 9:57horror story or is are you pretty much
285. 10:00adaptable with your schedule? Um
286. 10:03it's kind of packed. Like it's usually
287. 10:05like late in the evening when I'm free.
288. 10:08Um
289. 10:10So like I know me and a couple other
290. 10:11girls were talking about getting
291. 10:13together like on Thursday night to do
292. 10:15Spanish homework like to just recap from
293. 10:19everything and get caught up in that,
294. 10:21but we wouldn't be able to do that until
295. 10:23after 7:00.
296. 10:24Which is
297. 10:25kind of late, but I mean
298. 10:27Right. it's it'll work.
299. 10:30Okay.
300. 10:31So other than the um the anxiety, is
301. 10:34everything else going okay? Do you have
302. 10:35any other kind of responsibilities other
303. 10:37than school and work, anything like
304. 10:38that?
305. 10:39Um
306. 10:40I probably add a lot more like added on
307. 10:42responsibility to myself than anything,
308. 10:44but
309. 10:45like
310. 10:47I get really OCD about cleaning. So I
311. 10:50can't like function in my home unless
312. 10:53everything is spotless. Okay. And it's
313. 10:56really bad because I don't feel like I
314. 10:58have the time to clean. So then me doing
315. 11:00my homework while it's dirty really like
316. 11:02sets me off and I'm just like there's I
317. 11:04need to clean everything. Okay.
318. 11:08Okay. So kind of sounds like we have
319. 11:11some anxiety going on.
320. 11:13Um
321. 11:15Mhm.
322. 11:16Let's see.
323. 11:19So what um so other than the management
324. 11:23and uh school work and
325. 11:25uh work and work in general,
326. 11:28um
327. 11:29is there anything else that you're kind
328. 11:31of expecting from this experience?
329. 11:33Um what kind of help exactly are you
330. 11:35looking for? Are you looking for more of
331. 11:36like counseling for
332. 11:39um anxiety and or just mainly
333. 11:42management? Is there anything else?
334. 11:44Well, after like sitting here and
335. 11:46thinking about how much I've mentioned
336. 11:47my anxiety, that probably wouldn't be a
337. 11:49bad idea on top of the time management.
338. 11:51It seems like my anxiety is a lot worse
339. 11:54than I I feel like it is. Yeah. Okay.
340. 11:57Um
341. 11:57what kind of Well, I know that you said
342. 11:59that you're busy. What kind of time
343. 12:01um
344. 12:03do you think that you would be able to
345. 12:05come in? How often? Are you wanting to
346. 12:07do like a once a week, once every 2
347. 12:09weeks, things like that?
348. 12:10Um once every 2 weeks is fine for me.
349. 12:13And usually Monday, Wednesday, and
350. 12:15Friday mornings are the best for me.
351. 12:17Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Okay.
352. 12:22Let's see.
353. 12:23What time during the day? Um I don't
354. 12:26have class until 1:30 that on those
355. 12:28days, so anytime before that would be
356. 12:31Okay. Okay.
357. 12:32So mostly mornings.
358. 12:35Okay.
359. 12:38Let's