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Apr 4, 2022 · Social workers utilized other assessment and diagnostic tools in several areas of health and mental health practice, such as substance use, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, child assessment tools, eating disorders, and autism.
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Jan 30, 2014 · This is a classic work that introduced a systematic method of assessment—or social diagnosis—to understand a client’s problem. It is the first text to comprehensively present social work as a scientific profession and articulate theory and the practical application of methods to the collection of “social evidence.”.
Jul 20, 2023 · An assessment is a tool used by social workers to collect information from a client and to aid in the diagnosis of problems and conditions. There are numerous types of assessments.
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.
- Components of An Assessment
- The Person-In-Environment Classification System
- The Risk and Resilience Framework
- Family Systems Models
- Psychodynamic Models
- American Psychiatric Association Guidelines: The Medical Model
- Assessment of Mental Health Disorders
- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The components included in an assessment are dependent on many factors. However, there are some common elements included in most clinical assessments. Obviously, individuals working on a macro- or policy level would consider different factors in their assessments, such as organizational or neighborhood structures or policy influences. While these a...
Social work has one unique assessment model, the Person-in-Environment Classification System, or the PIE (Karls & Wandrei, 2008). Developed by social workers, the PIE incorporates the person-in-environment perspective into the assessment process. The PIE model includes four domains or factors: Factor I is social role functioning and coping; Factor ...
Another framework that social workers use in assessment is the risk and resilience framework. This framework considers “the balance of risk and protective factors that interact to determine an individual’s propensity toward resilience, or the ability to function adaptively despite stressful life events” (Corcoran & Walsh, 2006, p. 4). Risks are the...
Family systems theory is an umbrella term for several different specific family therapy models used by social workers, such as Family Emotional Systems Theory (Bowen, 1978), Structural Family Theory (Minuchin, 1974), Strategic Family Therapy (Haley, 1971), and Narrative Therapy (White & Epston, 1990). While each of these models other than narrative...
Psychodynamic models of assessment and treatment draw on several related but distinctive theories, as do the family systems models. All psychodynamic models assume that some psychological processes may be unconscious or unavailable to the purposeful awareness to the individual. Psychodynamic models also assume multiple determination; understanding ...
The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults (2016) offers another approach with which most clinical social workers are familiar (see Table 4.2). The format proposed by the APA is widely used in many medical and more traditional psychiatric settings. It is also the underlying format for parts of t...
The APA guidelines, as well as the PIE and psychodynamic models, include as part of assessment the development of a mental health diagnosis. This phase helps narrow the clinical social worker’s focus and may help develop an intervention plan. However, a focus on pathology or illness is historically associated with the medical profession and the med...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA, 2013b) is now in its fifth edition and is referred to as the DSM-5. It is the primary tool used in the United States to classify and diagnose individuals with a mental health disorder (Andreason & Black, 2006; Corcoran & Walsh, 2016; Grey & Zide, 2008). The DSM classifies different psy...
- James W. Drisko, Melissa D. Grady
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Feb 19, 2019 · The social care assessment is a ‘key interaction’ between a person and the local authority with ‘critical’ importance for determining a person’s needs for care and support. In order to achieve this, the guidance requires that assessments must be ‘person-centred throughout’.
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Social Work and Diagnosis. Diagnosis refers to the procedure used to identify the pres-ence and cause of a disorder from the onset, course, and combination of signs and symptoms (Harkness, 2011; Oth-mer & Othmer, 2002). The purpose of diagnosis is to guide a course of treatment, and relies on sound assessment skills (Harkness, 2011).
