Assessments
Additional Information
As a social worker, one of the most important genres of writing used in order to convey information about a particular client will be the psychosocial assessment. A psychosocial assessment is the social worker’s summary as to the problems to be solved. The social worker considers a variety of factors, which may include the physical/psychiatric illness and its impact, results derived from psychological tests, legal status, descriptions of the problem(s), existing assets and resources, the prognosis or prediction of outcome, and the plan designed to resolve the problem(s).
A Risk Assessment is a significant component of many assessments. Risk can be defined as ‘the possibility of beneficial and harmful outcomes, and the likelihood of their occurrence in a stated timescale’. The aim of risk assessment is to consider a situation, event or decision and identify where risks fall on the dimensions of ‘likely or unlikely’ and ‘harmful or beneficial’. The aim of risk management is to devise strategies that will help move risk from the likely and harmful category to the unlikely or beneficial categories. An enlarged idea of risk management based around the concept of ‘safeguarding incidents’ introduces the idea of professional and organizational learning from near misses.
SWA offers the following professional reports:
* child custody
* social welfare
* adoption
* parenting capacity
