WK5Assgn SOCW 6090.docx SOCW 6090 Week Five Assignment SOCW 6090 Walden University Sk

WK5Assgn SOCW 6090.docx  SOCW 6090  Week Five Assignment  SOCW 6090  Walden University  Skills Used to Engage  One concrete tool for providing culturally sensitive care and assessing an individuals' cultural background to help diagnose and treat is the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) (Dixon et al., 2016). It is designed to gather data about the perceived cultural influences of the writer's partner being interviewed (Díaz et al., 2017). This writer presented as the interviewer and applied skills and techniques to administer the American Psychiatric Association Cultural Formulation Interview to the writer's partner. It was essential to provide an environment where the writer's partner felt comfortable and safe to express herself.  Instead of launching immediately into questioning, the writer and writer's partner established a bit of rapport through small talk.     Administering the CFI in treatment is a way of explicitly acknowledging the unique individual and focusing on her goal and needs.  This provided a path for this writer to gain insight into the client's partner, presenting problem, and focus on understanding the problem (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). The interview was conducted virtually and required listening skills, eye contact, observing the non-verbal cues, and clarification.  When working via computer and not face-to-face, the non-verbals of communication can be, at times, overlooked.  Therefore, it was essential to provide attentive listening and use clarification