Discuss the importance of evaluating your own practice as a social worker.​

Answers may vary. Monitoring progress and measuring change are central to your ethical practice as a social worker. The process not only informs you and the client about the effectiveness of a strategy but also provides you with evaluative information about your own practice. Evaluative questions can be posed on a case-by-case basis and can also focus on aggregate information obtained by a review of all of your cases. As you gain additional knowledge and learn new skills, you can monitor and measure your skill level along a continuum. For example, you can determine if your skill level enabled you to serve the client better. Feedback from the clients with whom you are working is also integral to your self-evaluation.
Evaluating your practice need not be intimidating. Many of the quantitative and qualitative methods can be used to provide you with evaluative information.