This week, you read about a strengths-based assessment to recovery-oriented mental health practice which aligns with the understanding that social workers have that as a consequence of difference, a person’s life experiences may include oppression, poverty, marginalization, and alienation as well as privilege, power, and acclaim
Assume you have been asked to speak during the next social work training about conducting assessments in working with clients with severe mental illness.
Your goal is to help your colleagues in conducting effective client interviews to select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes to best assist and monitor client progress.
Your goal is to help your colleagues in conducting effective client interviews to select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes to best assist and monitor client progress.
Your goal is to help your colleagues in conducting effective client interviews to select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes to best assist and monitor client
progress.
Your goal is to help your colleagues in conducting effective client interviews to select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes to best assist and monitor client progress.
1. Provide at least six questions to ask in a comprehensive strengths-based assessment, including at least one cultural related question.
2.Analyze a psychometric assessment tool that can be used to support assessment and diagnosis.
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Analyze a psychometric assessment tool that can be used to support assessment and diagnosis.
4. Analyze a psychometric assessment tool that can be used to support assessment and diagnosis.
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Week 2 reading:
Week 2
Recovery-Oriented Assessment in Mental Health Practice
In Week 1, you were provided with an overview of the recovery-oriented approach to severe and persistent mental illness. You also examined facets of the DSM-5 dimensional approach to mental health diagnosing. Now in Week 2, you will review strategies related to conducting a comprehensive strengths-based assessment approach as the catalyst for developing DSM-5 diagnoses of clients. The assessment is the first phase of recovery-oriented practice, and it provides social workers with information related to recovery such as identifying information (age, sex, ethnocultural affiliation, marital status, and occupation); general appearance and demeanor (clothing, speech, body language, and the degree to which they appear to “belong” to their intimate group; drug use; education and job history; health and medical history; social/developmental history; military background); client’s cultural schemas, strengths and weaknesses, family and social support, interpersonal relationships, and other relevant information beyond the client’s diagnosis. Assessment also gives you a framework to develop a treatment plan and structure interventions.
The process of assessment involves a progression through three interrelated phases that are defined based on the social worker’s assessment tasks. First, social workers observe, select, and order information or “raw data” about the case. The clinical interview is the primary vehicle through which the social worker obtains information for formulating an assessment, although they will also rely on information from collateral sources including intake forms completed by the client, verbal reports provided by relatives, friends, and others, and other relevant records such as reports from medical/psychiatric providers, courts, and employers to guide the social worker’s assessment.
Second, the social worker conceptualizes the interactions among the variables in the case, guided by their professional social work training, clinical judgment, and theories and evidence relevant to the presenting problem or problems for intervention. Information from collateral sources such as friends and family members can be an invaluable aid in the process. When conceptualization is called for, this information is useful for confirming what the client has said and determining the degree of consistency and logic in the client’s story.
Third, the social worker shares the conceptualization with the client to achieve agreement about the nature of the identified problem or problems and the relevant variables that will be the focus of the social worker’s ongoing assessment. For problems that are of sufficient magnitude to warrant intervention, the social worker establishes treatment goals and uses information regarding variables that are sustaining, exacerbating, or diminishing the problem, and the client’s coping skills and resources for addressing the problem to develop a treatment plan.
This week, you will also discover assessment measurements that are fundamental for recovery-oriented practices. It is important to measure identified problems during baseline, intervention, and follow-up. Through measurements, social workers transform problem indicators into variables that have properties of measurement scales. These variables are most often tied to treatment goals; for example, reduction in psychosis, an increase in positive relationships with family, compliance with a medication regimen, and reduction in substance abuse. Remember, clinical interviews and data from measures provide social workers with several vantage points, including being able to better obtain relevant information about the client and perceived needs, determine the client’s current level of functioning, understand the problems, selecting ways to reduce the impact from the client’s perspective, monitoring client progress and/or lack of progress, and adjusting treatment plans and interventions as appropriate.
