Felicia McCaw's Exercise - CLASS INTERVIEW AND COUNSEL

Felicia McCaw
Sociology/Psychology 300
Interviewing &
Counseling

Felicia McCaw’s Exercise – Interview Assignment

Part 2 of Assignment (Page 142)
Individual Practice
Interview of Nicol McCaw
Client (Interviewee)

Based on the 3Vs & B.

Narration of Interview

Phase I

This interview was conducted with Nicol McCaw (client –interviewee) to get familiar and establish her as an incoming client. Informed consent was established first.

The first step was to provide the foundation of the interviewing process by first getting to know personal details of client by using opening questions and then closing the interview with closing questions and a desire to continue interview after further information was gathered by client.

A positive rapport and emphatic feeling was established to relax the client and to focus on making a comfortable setting to ensure interviewee was at ease with the following questions.

A positive regard, respect, warmth was relayed to client. Concreteness of questions was asked and a nonjudgmental attitude was projected throughout interview. Restory was utilized and a positive goal was relayed and established for client and a further indication of a future continuance of interview was established to be done at a future time.

Structuring was done prior to recording of interview to relax client, search and wellness was done throughout interview.

Phase II

Evaluation of Client (Interviewee)

The client’s characteristics are as follows:

1. Direct Eye Contact
2. Attentive Body Language
3. Relaxed and Openness
4. Honesty Reflected – (positive feature)
5. Desire to meet goal reflected by body language
6. Verbal language and personable
7. Vocal Tone – steady, clear and continued at normal pace
8. Verbal Tracking done – repeated conversation of what client stated.
Felicia McCaw
Sociology/Psychology 300
Interviewing &
Counseling

Felicia McCaw’s Exercise Interview Assignment
(continued)
Interview of Nicol McCaw
Client (Interviewee)

Phase III

Insights, Feelings and Skills Used

During this interview I was a little nervous and stuttered a little bit and felt my presentation could have been better. I feel that with time and practice I will become more comfortable with the taping of an interview. I tried to utilize the information relayed in the practice scenarios in class, but I felt a little uncomfortable with the actual interview being taped.

I enjoyed the interview and for my first interview I would probably give myself a B-, because I thought I did fair but was not pleased with my lack of smoothness but I tried to make myself comfortable as well as the client.

I look further to practicing more in the future so that I can become more fluent and stutter less or trip over my tongue.