The interview in the social workers’s work process

Abstract

The objective of this article is to re-establish the interview as being the social workers tool, introducing suggestions as to how to use it, and to fundament it more specifically in the technical-operations dimension as well as the theoretical-methodical and political ethical dimensions. It is also intended that this material will be an opportunity for accumulated knowledge sharing between social workers who make the interview a tool of their daily professional routines. As every task is a socio historical production it is subject to the reflexive contradictions of the real {world} and so we hope that we can provoke discussions which will enrich all those involved. It is important to highlight that the article holds no pretension to propose any unique inflexible model for the development of the Social Work interviews because each meeting performed is unique and has its own particulars.

Key words – Interview. Interview methods. Social Work.