Content

• Steps
• Tips
• What do you need

A Social Work Assessment is a written report by a social worker about a client who needs help with education, mental health, drug use, and social work services. Evaluation includes interviewing the client and other important individuals who are aware of the client's condition and needs. The final written report includes the goals the client must achieve in order to solve the problem, as well as the treatment or assistance of the social worker in achieving these goals.

Steps

1. 1 Schedule a client interview. The social worker includes most of the information in the assessment of social work in the form of direct reports, including information from all persons involved in the process.
   • Start interviewing a person who needs a specific service. It is very important to interview family members, former employees, therapists, teachers, and others who can provide detailed information about the client.
   • If you are unable to interview a client or healthcare professionals, review the client's medical and educational reports. These reports will help you get the information you need to evaluate social work.
2. 2 Conduct a survey.
   • You must have the assessment form with you during the survey. These forms include specific questions about problems, family circumstances, mental and physical health, alcohol and drug use, client needs, strengths, weaknesses, and access to resources for support. Using the grade form, you can focus on the survey and take notes. Many institutions provide assessment forms for the survey.
   • Create a safe survey environment by explaining privacy practices. In general, this includes the fact that all information received will remain part of the report and will not be released to people not involved in the process.
   • Ask open-ended questions that require detailed answers. Questions that require positive or negative answers will not give you enough information to evaluate and achieve goals in your treatment schedule.
3. 3 Write a social work assessment report.
   • Include in the report all information collected during the interview and review of the client's medical and educational reports. Describe the client's personality, including physical appearance, personal hygiene, ability to maintain eye contact, and mental orientation (a person's awareness of a time, place, or event). The reports are often narrative and describe the client's current problems and how they arose.
   • Compare and contrast the client's perception of his problems, needs, weaknesses and strengths with the perception of these aspects by others. Such a comparison will give you an understanding of the client's goals and needs in their treatment.
   • Set goals for the client with a time limit. If the goal is to stop drug use, the treatment recommendation will be a drug dependence treatment program, during which the client must attend meetings and be screened.
   • Schedule a meeting with the client after you write and discuss a plan to measure the client's progress towards the goals.

Tips

• Social work assessment is also called needs assessment or mental health assessment.
• An assessment centered on drug or alcohol use is an assessment of drug dependence.

What do you need

• Safe place for interviewing
• Medical and educational reports
• Assessment form