Activist Question:

☛ What do you hope to accomplish as a social worker?
☛ Our agency serves XYZ population. What interests you about serving this population?
☛ How do you feel about supervision? What type of supervision do you prefer?
☛ How do you balance your work and personal life?
☛ What types of clients do you find the most difficult to work with and why?
☛ What are some of your biggest accomplishments in your fieldwork?
☛ Tell me about the most difficult case you ever worked on.
☛ Tell me about something you would do differently in the management of one of your previous fieldwork cases.
☛ Have you ever been faced with an ethical conflict in your experience as a social worker? How did you handle the situation?
☛ Tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone over a treatment plan. What was the disagreement, and how was it resolved?
☛ How would you locate resources for clients in a community in which you have no relationships?
☛ Imagine a client walked into a session with you and appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. What would you do?
☛ What would you do if a client had a psychotic outburst in the waiting room?
☛ What techniques do you use in crisis intervention?
☛ What are your opinions on the current welfare system?
☛ Where do you think the field of social work is heading in the next five years?
☛ What is your theoretical orientation regarding family therapy?