Client: Uses social media in an unhealthy manner.
Uses social media to get unhealthy attention. (create a fictional lifestyle for the following slides)
This assignment will be graded on how thoroughly all the following areas are covered with emphasis on summarizing and highlighting the information while staying within the time frame. Remember to use critical thinking skills to form an integrative assessment.
1. SLIDE 1: Social History
a. Identifying Information
• Names (fictitious) and ages of family members, recent births or deaths
• Marital status, both past and present
• Religion, race, cultural background
• Language
• Education
• Employment history
• Medical history
• Current psychiatric problems or substance abuse (include diagnosis)
• Date of first contact
• Referral source
b. SLIDE 2: The family as a system
• Family structure
• Systems and relationships family interacts with (attach an ecomap chart, may be drawn or computer generated; see attached instructions and sample)
• Family functioning (Abuse? Illness? Mental Illness? Communication Patterns?)
• Family development (Particular roles? Significant events?)
c.SLIDE 3: Client(s) and family strengths and limitations (include relationships on the ecomap as appropriate)
.SLIDE 4: A statement of the presenting problem. Why does (do) the client(s) say they are there? What would the person’s family say? What do you see as the presenting problem? Are there contributing problems?
SLIDE 5: Your observation of this (these) client(s)
What has the service/treatment/work plan been like up until this date? (How often have you seen the client(s), for what purpose, what other services are being provided by your agency?)
SLIDE 6: .A summary of the results of any intervention used or services delivered.
SLIDE 7: Create an ECOMAP. The ECOMAP as an Assessment Tool
What is an Ecomap?
The ECOMAP is a paper-and-pencil exercise to be used as an assessment, planning, intervention, or evaluation tool. It uses an ecological approach to depict the major systems with which the client interacts.
How is it used?
The ECOMAP is used to gather different kinds of information and to identify:
• Members of the household and of the extended family, the nature of the relationships among these individuals, and the resources they exchange with the client
• Other people and systems in this client’s social environment and the resources exchanged with them
• The client’s relationships with community systems
• The present and past contributions of the client to others
• Other systems from which additional resources may be available
Why is the ECOMAP a useful tool?
• The ECOMAP organizes a great deal of information and can identify strengths as well as challenges.
• It can be constructed with an individual or with a family
• It can be used to represent past, present or future relationships.
• Creating the ECOMAP engages the client system in the process of assessing relationships with the social environment.
• The ECOMAP helps to identify the client’s positive contributions to the environment, possible resources for help, and gaps in support from the environment.
What information should be included on the ECOMAP?
In addition to basic information about relationships with other social systems, the ECOMAP can provide insight into client functions and other areas of interest. Some typical questions might include:
• How does the client perceive exchanges with other systems? Who does what for whom, now and in the past
• How does the client feel interactions with other systems? In particular, how does the client feel about receiving help? How do family members feel about giving help?
• Does the client feel that these interactions adequately meet his or her identified needs?
• Are there any other systems that should be explored as potential sources of help?
• Which of the systems providing care display conflicting needs or show evidence of strain due to care giving?
Creating an ECOMAP
• Tell the client or family that you would like help creating a picture of the important relationships with family, the community, significant others, and support systems.
• Start with the client’s household. Household members should be mapped within a circle in the traditional genogram, using squares to indicate males and circles to indicate females. Deceased member, with an X to indicate they are dead, can be mapped at the edge of the circle.
• Next, those environmental systems which affect the client’s life are identified on the map. As soon as the nature of the transaction has been determined, a line is drawn to express both the fact of the connection and the quality of the relationship. Arrows can be drawn along the connecting lines to indicate the direction of the flow of resources, energy or interest.
• Connections can be drawn to the family circle as a whole or to individual family members.
• Other environmental systems may be identified in terms of past history or future involvement.
• Draw new circles for addit
