SOWK 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Therapeutic Relationship, Left School, Suicidal Ideation
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Most students who go into bsw or social service worker programs will start career in a generalist way. Social diagnosis = assessment social diagnosis concept developed by mary richmond. 100 years later, there are a lot of similarities between the social diagnosis concept and the assessment process: information gathering and trying to understand client in their entirety. Constraints and factors of influence each of the things we talk about will be influenced by: actual model of practice an organization uses, agency purpose and mission, contractual arrangements, time and resources, (see slide 14) We"re going to look at graphic representations and some written assessments slide 15 includes a sampling of tools that are common. Mandated agencies (within regulatory structure) will typically use set intake and contact forms they usually have a specific sequence and serve as worker"s notes which are used to inform/influence next steps.
