Assessment at the adult stage does not contain the challenges of the child and adolescent stages, in which the practitioner may experience communication difficulties with the client or must rely on parents and caregivers for context. This does not mean assessment is easy, however.
Social work assessment tools for adults range from personality inventories to health questionnaires and from scales of symptom severity to ratings about the frequency of alcohol and substance use. Such tools can be client-reported or practitioner-reported after discussion and observation.
In this Assignment, you survey the tools available for use with adult clients and add one to your Practice Toolbox.
Access the Online Assessment Measures link in the Learning Resources. (provided in resources below)
On that site, explore at least three different assessment tools for adults under the various categories. A few that you may consider are: Severity Measure for Depression, Adult; Level 2, Substance Use, Adult; and Level 2, Anxiety, Adult.
Select one assessment tool that you can see yourself using in practice with adult clients. Do not use a tool that you have chosen previously.
Consider why you have chosen this assessment tool and its strengths and limitations.
Submit a 1-page paper analyzing the adult assessment tool you have chosen:
Why did you select the assessment tool?
Why might it be especially helpful for use with adults?
What challenges or limitations might there be for this assessment tool?
Use the Learning Resources to support your Assignment. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
RESOURCES YOU MUST INCLUDE:
Brandell, J. R. (Ed.). (2020). Theory & practice in clinical social work (3rd ed.). Cognella.
Chapter 8, “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Adults” (pp. 147–174)
Chapter 9, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With Adults” (pp. 175–220)
Chapter 26, “Clinical Social Work With Suicidal Youth and Adults” (pp. 610–635)
American Psychiatric Association. (n.d.). Online assessment measures. https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures
Columbia Lighthouse Project. (n.d.). The Columbia protocol for healthcare and other community settings.. https://cssrs.columbia.edu/the-columbia-scale-c-ssrs/cssrs-for-communities-and-healthcare
Scroll down and select one of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) Screeners for use in the Discussion. Note that you can also review the Full Scale on this page.
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