Brief Intervention

Client stated that she first started using alcohol at the age of 14. Client reported most recently consuming alcohol within the past 2 days of this assessment. Client reports out of the last 90 days prior to her evaluation, she used alcohol on 70 of those days, 45 of those days she drank herself into intoxication. Client reported over the past 2-12 months, she has had repeated

the second part will include milner and o............ questioning models to demonstrate an understanding different methods of questioning and the Codes of Professional Practice as a guideline for social workers

Ms. Bynum is a self-referral who agreed to participate in the TPAPN monitoring program. On 11/24/16, Ms. Bynum tested positive for alcohol (ETG - 2510 ng/ml, ETS - 77 ng/ml) and renewed her program with TPAPN. On 2/26/16, Ms. Bynum tested positive for alcohol (ETG - 7980 ng/ml, ETS - 1580 ng/ml). On 4/7/16, Dr. John Lehman conducted an assessment on Ms. Bynum and recommended 90-day inpatient treatment program that Ms. Bynum refused. Additionally, Dr. Lehman stated on assessment that Ms. Bynum is not fit to practice and has a high-risk for relapse.

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A typical day for a social worker consists of helping those that are in need, providing appropriate resources, and empowering their clients. Before a social worker can help their clients, they will need to do an assessment. An assessment consists of learning about the individual and their everyday lives. According to Timberlake, Zajicek-Farber, and Sabatino (2008), “The client system and the social worker conduct an assessment of problems, needs, strengths, and resources; establish priorities and goals; and reach agreement about the preintervention date-collection activities necessary to provide a baseline for evaluating change” (p. 79). It is important for the social worker to collect all this information because it will provide insight on

Assessment is a basic skill of generalist social workers. As my current place of employment does not employ any defined assessment, I will utilize

In social work practice, client assessments are important because they allow social workers to gather information from clients. This information helps the acting social worker better understand clients presenting problems. The assessment also helps social workers evaluate a client’s progress and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions used. In this paper, a multidimensional assessment will be performed on a client I have been working with at my internship placement, Urban Ministries of Durham. Once all relevant information is presented, and intervention and treatment plan will be discussed.

4.1 Critically compare the types of feedback, support and advice that internal assessment and quality assurance staff may need to maintain and improve the quality of assessment

The point at which the client’s symptoms were most extreme was towards the end of her alcoholism, which was in her early thirties. She used humor, felt incomplete and fragile, oversensitive to other’s reactions of her, felt the need to hide from people whether it was through work or through drinking, and was aware of her drinking problem. She also presented with anxiety, excessive exercising and healthy eating, and denial of drinking in excess.

During the time of the assessment Ms. Maness presents sloppy, good eye contact, appropriate speech, appropriate mood, appropriate affect, and 4X oriented. Ms. Maness boyfriend was at her bedside. Ms. Maness reports she has been 3 days without alcohol, became agitated last night , and was experiencing

D- Reports being stable on her dose and haven't used any illicit drugs. This writer addressed with the patient that there's an alert for the patient to conduct a random breathalyzer. According to the patient, she has no problem doing the breathalyzer because she says, " I do not drink anymore. I did before. I had a problem and I just stopped. It was an issue in 2003, but not anymore. I do not even drink occasionally because my ex-husband passed away due to alcoholism, which changes everything for me and how I view things.......My son smokes pot, but he does not do it around me nor lives with me....he stays with his girlfriend.....My daughter lives with me.....Charlene, you know my son has social anxiety? Yes....he really needs mental health

I learned to understand the basic elements of the interview through the social worker’s skills checklist that was given at the beginning of each mock interview. Through the checklist I learned the importance of building a rapport with clients, the funneling technique, naming feelings, naming feelings, paraphrasing, engaging in supportive collaborative behaviors, and how to appropriately

Key assessment questions a social worker might ask are: what is the history of the problematic behaviour? How have you attempted to handle or cope with the problem? What do you want to achieve from this helping relationship? What specifically is the problem? What is the history of the problematic behaviour? What are the causes of the problem? Where does the problematic behaviour occur? When does the problematic behaviour occur? What are the frequency, intensity and duration of the problematic behaviour? Who is involved in the problem i.e., family, friends, co-workers etc.? How are the participants involved? How do you personally see the problem? What are some of the skills you possess that might help you combat the problem? What are the recommended

In this assignment I shall be defining the topic surrounding crisis throughout the field of mental health. I will be attempting to do this by using a various range of literature and theories of that can help us create a greater understanding and knowledge base of what a crisis is, why it occurs and how we can potentially prevent a crisis from occurring. I shall then be discussing how I would engage those individuals that are in crisis, exploring the engagement process and showing the skills that are necessary to provide support to the person in crisis. I will then be discussing what challenges we meet as both professionals and the individual that is in crisis and what tools and strategies are placed in order to conquer these

Having said that, it was difficult still not to assume things based on statements that came from the client, without really knowing too much information yet. This may be difficult for any social worker due to unconscious biases or grouping together clients whom the worker may feel are similar. The whole interaction went fairly well, the only thing that I would change is to possibly get more details over all in the facets of Mr. Smith’s life. From this whole process, I can now see why there is a need for all the detailed questions and though some may seem redundant, may actually be important later. There is great effort put into these evaluations and for good measure. The multidimensional assessment itself seems crucial in getting to the deeper issue of a client’s