(1) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – SDQ (Goodman, 2001). The SDQ is a behavioural screening questionnaire that has 25 items and is used for children aged from 3 to 16 years old. The 25 items encompasses 5 sub-items: emotional symptoms, hyperactivity/inattention, pro-social behaviour, conduct problems, and peer relationship problems. Each item is rated on a 3-point Likert scale from “not true” to “certainly true”. A total score is obtained by adding the items on 4 subscales (except the pro-social behaviour, that is considered a stand alone strength measure). According to Goodman and Scott (1999), the SDQ is as accurate as the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) to detect conduct and emotional problems, and better to identify inattentive
PHQ-9- Patient Health Questionnaire: The PHQ-9 is a 9-item multipurpose self-report instrument used in the screening, diagnosing, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression based on criteria presented by DSM-IV (Test Review: Patient Health Questionnaire-9, 2014).
The Family Systems Stressor-Strength Inventory (FS3I) is a tool used to evaluate and measure stressful conditions occurring in families and assist clinicians in developing intervention activities for individual members. By using this instrument, strengths and weaknesses of family functioning can be identified. The FS3I involves independent completion of the instrument by each member of the family prior to the interview with the clinician. After completion of the instrument, the clinician assesses the family on each of the stressful conditions from a general and specific perspective. Both quantitative and qualitative data are used to define the intervention required to establish equilibrium within the family (Kaakinen, Gedaly-Duff, Coehlo, &
The Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents (RSCA) is a profile of personal strengths that assess personal characteristics that are associated with resiliency (Prince-Embury, 2011). These scales help identify how well a child and youth are able to recover from significant distress, adversity, or life traumas. The RSCA was developed by Sandra Prince –Embury and published by SAGE influenced largely by the Development Theory, Social Learning Theory, and Psychosocial Theory (Prince-Embury, 2009). The RSCA aims to measure clients in three areas of perceived strength, limitations, and/ or vulnerabilities that are related to psychological resilience, assessing youth from 9 to 18 years of age (Prince-Embury, 2012). This tool assists administrators to identify children who have low personal resource and high vulnerabilities before they fall behind and become symptomatic. The assessment results are often utilized as a planning measure on which to focus the treatment plan more towards resiliency intervention if needed (Prince-Embury, 2011). The RSCA can be later used with the same individual as an evaluation measure of the impact of resiliency interventions that have taken place. Even when a client is coping effectively in the present the RSCA can identify how that particular individual may respond when adverse events are encountered (2011).
Gallup’s (2017) StrengthsQuest assessment lists my five greatest strengths as competition, achiever, learner, input, and strategic. After reviewing the detailed descriptions of these strengths, I am confident that I can successfully apply these skills to my job as an investigator and further develop my capacity in leadership. Before taking this survey, I was certain that focus would be among my five greatest strengths, but after considering the book’s description of the achiever theme, I am convinced of the accuracy of this evaluation. Outlined below is my interpretation of these talents, their intrinsic drawbacks, and several illustrations of how they have helped me achieve success. I have also included a few examples of how I can implement
After thinking about my teen 's cognitive strengths and weaknesses and how they are reflected in his or her school grades and activities from 14-16 years of age, her strengths were greater than her weaknesses. For example, Salma got A 's in Spanish, English Honors and History courses starting from when she was 14 years. The English and Spanish teachers of Salma both commented "a pleasure to have in class." I believe her interest and enthusiasm helped her achieve high scores in these classes. She Also received a B in Algebra and a B in both her science courses of Physics and biology, and also, she received B 's in her Fine Arts classes both school years. One of Salam’s weaknesses is when it comes to taking music classes, she got a C in music course her freshman year and said, "I never want to take another music class as long as I live!" the career or courses of study might be best suited to my teen 's abilities and interests is either psychology major, or English professor, because Salma has strong communication skills, very strong interpersonal skills, and is very supportive among her friends. She is always putting other people’s problems into context to understand what they going to through before deciding on solution of any problems. Meaning she doesn’t jump to conclusion when problems arises, she is very clam until she can sum it up the best way to settle things in their best form.
The child selected for purposes of this paper is a 31 month old male and will be referred to as “Timmy”. The interview and questionnaire were completed in the presence of his mother. Timmy and his other currently reside with maternal grandmother and maternal step-grandfather. Maternal aunt along with her three children also resided in the home, but moved out one week prior to the assessment being completed. He scored very well in all domains of the 30 month ASQ, each score was within the typical range.
My top 5 themes from the StrengthsQuest Inventory are Maximizer, Relator, Adaptability, Includer, and Belief.
Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) is a useful tool that is utilized by many professionals to acorn for developmental and social-emotional screening for children from one month to 66 months (ASQ, 2014). ASQ incorporates parent’s knowledge about their child and validates the strengths and trouble areas to educate parents about developmental milestones (ASQ, 2014).
In addition to this, I have conducted Child Behaviour Checklists (CBCL) with the teachers and parent of a child who was displaying behaviours indicating a Social Emotional Disorder. This information was provided to the student’s doctor so she could make a referral to a psychologist as part of his Mental Health Treatment Plan.
In the past couple of weeks I found a common theme about my personality and my strengths through Strengthsfinder, MBTI, and the FOCUS 2 assessments. I have come into touch with my strengths of adaptability, competition, empathy, curiosity, communication, and consistency. On all three assessments I have learned that I am an excellent communicator. For example, on the FOCUS 2 assessment I scored a high of twenty five for the strength of being social and had a score of zero for conventional on the bottom of my chart. As for the personality assessment, I learned I was a campaigner. This is somebody who enjoys emotional connections with other people and somebody who thrives off curiosity and energy. Lastly, the Strengthsfinder assessment allowed me to come in touch with
At the point when a person’s mental wellbeing is tested, holding on to hope and self-conviction can be exceptionally troublesome. Care scaffold around strength and recovery approach is crucial, and this is the theme for this essay. This paper examines the part of strengths in recovery and strengths-based practice. Strengths-based practice is a paradigm shift in mental health and has been made real broadly in the outline and conveyance of administration in New Zealand. The idea of recovery is indispensable to strengths-based practice. Incorporating the conviction that individuals with mental health issues have resilience and other innate assets which can be intensified and used to encourage their recovery journey. The personal information
Other points that validate its use are the SDQ was one of the key measures that was agreed, scores can generated to give a Childs- emotional symptom, conduct problems, hyperactivity, difficulties in peer’s relationships. It also gives levels of prosocial behaviour, widely used across the world in a range of (50+) languages, well standardised, quick to complete, acceptable in range of settings and found to be sensitive for use of children with learning disabilities and there was evidence of its reliability. All of the reasons named above will help me to explain more information about the SDQ and validate how effective it is using CORC my reference point.
There are some concerns for the use of the CBCL. The preschool version of the CBCL is questioned in reliability and validity on some of the scales. It is common to see to this as an issue because early diagnosis and identifying behaviors in younger children are often difficult. It cautioned that the CBCL not be used as a diagnosing tool, however used as a screening tool. Review’s mention that the ASEBA system as a whole lack a strength based approach and that the Social Competence scale is not yet well developed. The Social Competence scale should measure both positive and negative aspects of a child’s behavior.
As this writer embarks upon a new era of life, taking overhaul is crucial and paramount to the success and happiness contemplated. StrengthsQuest Questionnaire gave insight into a few pronounced qualities through cultivation and strategy these traits could catapult this writer’s future to places only envision. Section 1 – Awareness, in this category I scored as the learner. This is true as I am a returning student who enjoys learning new processes and concepts that one can incorporate in the business community. Furthermore, technology changed the way the world does business, socializes and interacts. This is the perfect time to learn for this writer the required discipline, dedication and tenacity allows for an overall beneficial learning experience.
My current strengths include; my honesty and passion towards my work. I have always been positive and confident regarding my aims and targets. Along with these, I am a good decision maker, due to which I can make right and quick decisions. Moreover, I have ability to motivate others and do team work. I am also a responsible person, when I make a target; I work day and night to achieve my goal.