Chapter 10 Assessment Assessing Resource Capabilities.

Chapter 10

Assessment

Assessing Resource Capabilities

Exploring Resource Systems through Assessment

• Recognizing environmental resources

• Turning challenging situations into resources

• Collaborating to search for resources

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Applying Theoretical Frameworks

• Identify the focal system

• Explore– What happens inside this system?– What happens outside this system?– How do the inside and the outside connect?– What happens as the system progresses

through time?


Applying Ecosystemic Questions

• Structural elements

• Interactions

• Psychosocial dimensions

• Cultural influences

• Physical environments


Assessing Structures

• Considers:– Configuration of systems and their

environments

• Asks:– Who has the power?– What connections are working?– What connections are missing?


Interactional Assessment

• Considers:– How people and their environments relate and

evolve

• Asks: – Is this the way things should be? – What have we got to lose?


Thinking and Feeling

• Considers:– System's cognitive and affective components

• Asks:– What do you think? – How does it feel?


Cultural Assessment

• Considers how cultural:• Identity influences interactions with larger systems • Elements contribute to diversity in a social system

• Asks:– What about the big picture?– How does the system fit together?


Assessment of Spiritual Dimensions

• Considers:– Influence of spiritual beliefs on thoughts and

actions– How spirituality supports assists clients in

coping

• Asks:– What does it all mean?


Assessment of Physical Environments

• Considers:– Aspects of physical environments that

enhance or restrain client functioning– Examines home, work, school, and

neighborhood environments

• Asks:– Have you looked around this place?


Assessment Tools: Examples

• Social histories

• Genograms and eco-maps

• Culturally sensitive assessment

• Social network maps; group assessment

• Organizational assessment

• Neighborhood & Community Assessment

• Tools as Resources for Empowerment


Adding Viewpoints

• Contributes alternative views from various sources– Significant others– Professional helpers

• Contacting other professionals requires informed consent


Assessing Through Observation

• Objectify and update assessment information– Maintain a strengths orientation

• Sources of observations– Clients– Others in clients’ lives– Workers


Recordkeeping

• Keeps track of contacts, activities, and plans

• Organizes relevant information

• Arranges priorities

• Ensures continuity


Recording Formats

• Note taking

• Activity logs

• Process recording

• Summary recording


Ethical and Legal Issues in Record Keeping

• Electronic record keeping requires: – Safeguards for security to preserve

confidentiality

• HIPPA regulations

• NASW Code of Ethics– Clients should have reasonable access to

their records.


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