Social Work Skills
• Engagement
• Assessment
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Termination
• Listening/attending skills: clarifying, paraphrasing, summarizing, reframing, non-verbal attending
• Communication skills
• Empathy
• Critical thinking
• Counseling/clinical diagnosis/clinical interventions
• Report writing and documentation
• Leadership
• Administrative skills
• Research, including practice evaluation
• Analysis of and application of practice research to work
• Policy practice
• Professional and effective use of self
• Management of professional relationships
• Community assessment, planning, and development
• Management of competing needs and interests in rural settings
• Effective use of supervision and consultation