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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL WORK. UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, HANOI, AUGUST 2010 LECTURE ONE
Peter Norden, A.O.Vice Chancellor’s Fellow
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL WORK
• Primary Goal of this course: to help social work practitioners provide more effective treatment to their clients.
• Focus on the therapeutic process
• How to make a good diagnosis and assessment that leads to an effective intervention?
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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL WORK
• History of Diagnosis and Assessment in Social Work:
1. 1917: Mary Richmond, Social Diagnosis
2. 1968: Francis Turner, Differential Diagnosis and Treatment in Social Work
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• More recent writings on Diagnosis and Assessment:
1. 2005: Eileen Gambrill, Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, Uni. Of California, Berkeley
2. 2006, Corcoran and Walsh, Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice
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• More recent writings continued:
3. 2004: Sally Holland, Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice
4. 1995: Jordan and Franklin, Clinical Assessment for Social Workers
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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL WORK
An Important Perspective on Clinical Assessment:
• Much clinical assessment can focus on deficits, disease and dysfunction.
• Focus on diagnosing abnormal and pathological conditions.
• It is also critical important to focus on the strengths of the client in order to bring about greater client empowerment.
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Charles Cowger (Social Work Journal, 1994) Assessing Client Strengths: Clinical Assessment for Client Empowerment.
12 practice guidelines that foster a strengths perspective.
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• Give pre-eminence to the client’s understanding of the facts
• Believe in the client
• Discover what the client wants
• Move the assessment towards personal and environmental strengths
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• Make assessment of strengths multidimensional
• Use the assessment to discover uniqueness
• Use language the client can understand
• Make assessment a joint activity between worker and client
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• Reach a mutual agreement on the assessment
• Avoid blame and blamings
• Avoid cause and effect thinking
• Assess: do not diagnose
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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL WORK
• CASESTUDIES AND ROLE PLAY:
• FOCUS ON DEFICITS
• FOCUS ON STRENGTHS
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• Review questions:
• How has social work developed in its understanding of diagnosis and assessment over the last one hundred years?
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• Review questions:
• What are the critical questions that you bring to this course from your knowledge or your practice experience?
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• Review questions:
• What skills do you hope to take from this course on clinical assessment and diagnosis in social work practice?
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