The following is an interview preparation. The university professor has sent six question that deal with case management. The interview will take place in front of her class and case management experiences will be discussed during the interview.

Question 1:
What interpersonal skills do you think are necessary to have when working with your clients?
Answer 1: There are many skills interpersonal skills are case manager must have. The important ones are verbal, non-verbal, problem solving, listening, negotiating, discussion making, and assertiveness and this is why every client is different even when suffering from similar illness, problems or issues. It’s important that you always consider your audience or client when using verbal and non- verbal …show more content…
As a case manger you need to take this into consideration when making your care plan or your care plan will not work. There are several factors that limit resources in prison. Some of the factors are safety concerns, space, funding, and some resources that cannot be used in a prison environment. Another factor to consider is that the prison environment your clients are being exposed too is very different from the environment the client came from and most likely will be released back into. Just because you clients are making good progress in a prison environment does not mean they will make good progress once being released back till their original environment. This is where it is extremely important that you keep this in mind when developing a care plan and also while you manger your client’s case. Your client may need to be monitored once released from prison and community setting case management may need to be implied. This is important to recognize that this may happen and prepare early on in your clients care plan and setting goals for your