Intervention Techniques

After listening to the video, one may easily conclude that the intervention used by this social worker is behavioral modification because the process involves helping this client change from one who is frightened of the sound of the vacuum cleaner. So they cannot vacuum the house to use the machine. However, when one listens keenly to the first part of the conversation between 0:12 and 0:18 minutes, one can hear that the Social Worker is making a follow-up on the progress of the client (Van Breda, 2010). At this point, one can see that the Social Worker is using evaluation monitoring as an intervention. This is an intervention technique where the social worker continuously monitors the client’s progress and evaluates their interventions’ effectiveness. This feedback loop allows adjustments to be made to interventions to improve outcomes. One can see in the conversation that while the social worker is examining how the client is making contact with friends in the film between 0:04 and 0-17 minutes, the social worker takes a further step to find out why the client was vacuum cleaning yet at one point they were scared of doing the same (Van Breda, 2010). Through this process, the social worker monitors the progress and can see that not only is the client doing well with creating connections, but the client is also doing well with overcoming their fears, and they are doing better in their ability to live everyday lives. It is possible to conclude that the intervention is working well up to this point in the video.