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- A social work assessment is central to helping people understand their situation and needs and is the main means of access to social care, facilitating the provision of support to adults whose needs are complex.
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What is Clinical Social Work Practice?
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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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.
Nov 14, 2019 · The social work assessment, which takes account of a range of factors, contrasts starkly with health assessment tools which focus individually on one small part of a patient’s functioning.
- Hilary Wilson
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Jun 16, 2022 · The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB, 2018) defines clinical social work practice as “the application of specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the areas of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions and addictions” (p. 6).
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 ...
Nov 15, 2018 · Multiprofessional working has many benefits for clients, but places new demands on social work assessment. Current models are limited in embracing these tensions, and more integrated models are required.
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’.
