Psychosocial Assessment.pptx

psychosocial care techniques

1. Psychosocial Assessment Topic presentation By:- Supervisor Taniskha Lokhonary Fathima Hasanath MASW PH PHD Scholar TISS Guwahati NIMHANS

2. What is psychosocial assessment? A psychosocial assessment is actually a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of an individual patient’s physical, mental, and emotional health, along with his ability to function within a community and his perception of himself. It is mainly conducted by social workers and other mental health experts, and is a tool to learn facts about a person, as well as determine his present and future behavior. Mlblevins. (2014, November 26). Psychosocial assessment: Purpose and examples . Psychologenie. Retrieved December 7, 2022, from https://psychologenie.com/psychosocial-assessment-purpose-examples

3. Psychosocial Assessment Tools that help us to find facts about psychosocial wellbeing and psychosocial needs. Measures and report impact of disaster/crisis on population (reactions, needs and resources ) Helps us to identify vulnerable sub-groups. Guide to ‘where, when, what, and how’ to planning and implementing psychosocial intervention.

4. Methods of psychosocial assessment Quantitative Qualitative Observation Focus Group discussions Rating Scale Questionnaire i nterview Surveys

5. Sources Primary sources: Client Physical examination Secondary sources: Family members, Friends, teachers. Other healthcare provider Test results

6. Areas of Psychosocial Assessment The areas are termed as “factors” The individual factors involve ‘biological and psychological’ aspects. The ‘social’ factors divided into few other aspects such as family, neighbourhood and friends, workplace, school/college, financial, welfare and rehabilitation, legal, other social factors and other important areas.

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8. Eco map An eco map is a structural diagram of a client's most important relationships with people, groups, and organizations ; and identifies resources available in clients' community. Genogram It is a pictorial display of a person's family relationships and medical history . It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.

9. Psychosocial assessment in disaster context During relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction phases. For any intervention, PSA is needed. Rapid PSA is designed to help gather data in an efficient and effective way to help inform integration of psychosocial support as minimum standards into the broader disaster management action plans in response to an emergency.

10. After psychosocial assessment Analysis and formulation : After the assessment, social worker is expected to analyse the factors in terms of cause-effect relationship, predisposing, maintaining, risk and protective- aspects by applying appropriate theories. Psychosocial diagnosis : After the analysis and formulation, the social worker gives a diagnosis on which he/she plans interventions. Psychosocial interventions : After the assessment and analysis, the social worker may plan for social work intervention on individual, group, family and community level.

11. CONCLUSION PSA can be used in in-patient, outpatient , rehabilitation and community mental health care settings. It can be applied for different population with all kinds of mental health issues such as adults, geriatric, children and adolescents. It is proposed for a general understanding of the client’s problems. Social worker is advised to use appropriate assessment tools to understand each problems of client, in depth.

12. REFERENCES G, Ragesh & Hamza, Ameer & Kvn, Sajitha. (2015). Guidelines for Social Work Assessment in Mental Health Settings. International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation. National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK). Self-Harm: Longer-Term Management. Leicester (UK): British Psychological Society (UK); 2012. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 133.) 6, PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK126773/ Mlblevins. (2014, November 26). Psychosocial assessment: Purpose and examples . Psychologenie. Retrieved December 7, 2022, from https://psychologenie.com/psychosocial-assessment-purpose-examples https://pscentre.org/?resource=rapid-assessment-pss-and-vp&selected=single-resource