Self recording assessment isA reflective look back as the client reviews a particular issue, thought, or feeling. We usually recommend the client keep a diary and write daily about their general thoughts and feelings regarding a particular issue

how Geraldine is progressing in her treatment.

What is the assessment you are going to use and why? (self-recording) After you decide this, in your triads, role-play the way in which you would introduce this assessment to Geraldine and why it would be useful for her. Focus on your engagement skills and collaboration in this discussion. How will you explain this assessment and how you will get her to agree to the assessment. Your role play does not need to be longer than 3 minutes.

You will each play the client, social worker, and observer.

Geraldine's background info: As the family secret keeper, Geraldine is the glue of her family. They don't even know her secret, which is that her maternal grandfather abused her and got her pregnant when she was 14 years old, right after her own father died. Her grandfather made her get an abortion and she never has told a soul. Geraldine also blames her grandfather for her mother's stroke, he repeatedly hit her in the head as a child. As a teenager, Geraldine did anything she could to get out of her home after her father's death and the abortion.

Although she and her mother were very close, she became very upset when her mother decided to make them move following her father's passing. Shortly after the move, she met Alejandro when she was 15 and got pregnant at 16. They were married shortly after, and both worked two jobs just to make ends meet. Even though the house needs significant repairs and Alejandro just cant keep up with it, she refuses to leave the home they live in. She has lived there since they were married and refuses to move until she dies.