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Assessment is an ongoing process of data collection aimed at identifying client strengths and problems. Early assessment models were based on psychoanalytic theory; however, current assessment is based on brief, evidence-based practice models.
Jan 30, 2014 · Assessment is essential to social work practice no matter the social worker’s role, the nature of the interaction or practice setting, client population, or phase of the helping process. It is used to gather evidence to understand presenting problems, to evaluate progress and outcomes, and to assess the effectiveness of interventions and ...
In social work, assessment generally refers to a process of learning through collect-ing information, making observations, checking information from diferent sources, and synthesizing all the information to develop goals and actions. Assessment is an integral part of social work practice, although it is often viewed as a separate step.
This chapter will introduce you to elements of social work assessment, incorporating principles, context, models, frameworks, skills and practice issues. It will draw reference from across the range of service user groups and invites you to reflect on and critically explore the material.
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Pick any two overviews of serious case review reports and read them through. (You can find these reports by typing in ‘serious case review overview report’.) Look at the simi-larities and differences and consider what these might mean for your practice and development as a social worker undertaking assessments.
This section introduces ways in which assessment might be understood. It is impor-tant to have an awareness of different understandings of assessment because the ways in which it is understood can affect what is done, how the assessment takes place, how information is used and interpreted, and what plans are made as a result. This will affect not o...
Chris is well known in the social work office. Since having his first child removed from his care and subsequently adopted, he has been to the office on several occasions, becom-ing angry, and shouting and swearing at the social work staff. Once he threatened violence to the social worker involved in the initial assessment. (Continued) 7 (Continued...
Jane, mother of Tony, separated from Eddie, Tony’s father, after two years of domestic violence. Tony received an injury to his arm during one of these incidents. Eddie is now requesting greater contact with Tony. social worker taking a problem-solving approach would look to examine the risks that Eddie might pose to Tony, seek and test alternative...
Social work assessments, therefore, combine the judgement or weighing up of some-thing with the explicit acknowledgement of the importance of values, diversity and the views of others. One further way of looking at assessment in social work is to separate the ‘types’ of assessment used.
In this section, we will examine the different types of assessment in terms of their focus and duration. Before we look at different types of assessment it is important to take a little time to consider the question, ‘Why is assessment so important?’ We have seen the emphasis put on assessment in the Climbié inquiry (Laming, 2003) and by social wor...
As a student on her first practice learning placement, Margaret was allocated a case concerning a mother, Carol, and her two young children. The referral from the health visitor had requested help with parenting and behaviour management. Margaret was eager to begin practice. She telephoned Carol and organised a con-venient time and date to visit. T...
Write down as many reasons as you can think of for social workers undertaking an assessment. Place these in three lists: those that focus on producing reports or specific ‘products’; those that see assessment as a continuous process; those that fall into both categories.
The activity above may not have been as easy as it may have seemed at first sight. Indeed, you may have hesitated when placing each assessment in one of the three col-umns. Don’t worry if this was the case. Assessments are, as we are beginning to see, complex and do not fit neatly into categories. Even an assessment that resulted in a court report,...
How do you think this approach differs from social work models of assessment that you have come into contact with or that you know from your course, reading or placement? The Signs of Safety approach to child protection has a long practice history and research base in Australia and has been used in the UK (see Signs of Safety website https://www....
We have considered some definitions of social work assessments, the types and levels involved and now turn to the purposes for which assessments are used. The purposes of assessment are as many and varied as the methods designed for undertaking them. The assessment itself serves to reach initial conclusions that describe, explain, predict, evaluate...
Platt (2011) describes a model of analysis in social work assessments, focusing on chil-dren and families building on earlier hypothesis-testing work designed to improve and enhance social workers’ analysis in assessment. He draws his model from approaches designed to facilitate study skills training in post-qualifying childcare education run at th...
List the administrative and interpersonal skills that you think are needed to conduct an effective assessment. Identify which skills you already have and which you need to develop, and outline ways in which you may increase these skills. Refer back to the standards and benchmarks detailed at the outset of this chapter and match these against your a...
In this chapter we have introduced and explored some of the key features concerning social work assessments. We have seen not only how fundamental assessments are to social work practice, but also how complex they are. The importance of a value base which respects people who use social work services and flexibility and reflexivity in social workers...
A social work assessment is a crucial process that helps social workers understand the needs, strengths, and challenges of individuals, families, or communities. It is the foundation upon which interventions, care plans, and support strategies are built.
The revised Competency-Based Evaluation (CBE) Tool consists of 7 domains or sub scales with associated items expressed as behavioral skills. The overall score is calculated by averaging across all 57 items. The sub-scores are calculated by averaging across items listed under each domain.
