Social work assessments can often embody a narrative nature in order to best draw out a client's story. There are several questions a social worker must adress, answer and assess by the end of the assessment process, ranging from micro to macro level problems, strengths and resources.
A narrative assessment should enable your client to make their own discoveries and notice patterns in behaviors or events. When addressing a problematic behavior, it is essential to ask your client: What is the outcome of the behavior? This question is especially important as it can empower the client to self-adress the outcome, aftermath or consequences of a behavior. A social worker's goal within a direct practice paradigm often might entail encouraging self-awareness via self-reflection. This relates to the key social work value of self determination. At best a narrative extends a client's awareness beyond what they have thought about previously by encouraging the assessment to be a discovery process.
Dynamic questions should help the client create a narrative or story about their behavior which moves them beyond a fragmented view of actions and events to a cohesive story and reflective mode. If people are conscious of their behavior, that gives them something concrete to work with. This moves the social worker beyond passivity, as they must remain an active listener to help address these questions while giving the client tools to solve a problem. Assessment questions encourage the client to become self reflective regarding their problems and why they are seeing you by tying together different fragments of a problem into a narrative.
In order to avoid a "one size fits all" mentality within your intervention, a personal and comprehensive assessment must be conducted!
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A narrative assessment should enable your client to make their own discoveries and notice patterns in behaviors or events. When addressing a problematic behavior, it is essential to ask your client: What is the outcome of the behavior? This question is especially important as it can empower the client to self-adress the outcome, aftermath or consequences of a behavior. A social worker's goal within a direct practice paradigm often might entail encouraging self-awareness via self-reflection. This relates to the key social work value of self determination. At best a narrative extends a client's awareness beyond what they have thought about previously by encouraging the assessment to be a discovery process.
Dynamic questions should help the client create a narrative or story about their behavior which moves them beyond a fragmented view of actions and events to a cohesive story and reflective mode. If people are conscious of their behavior, that gives them something concrete to work with. This moves the social worker beyond passivity, as they must remain an active listener to help address these questions while giving the client tools to solve a problem. Assessment questions encourage the client to become self reflective regarding their problems and why they are seeing you by tying together different fragments of a problem into a narrative.
In order to avoid a "one size fits all" mentality within your intervention, a personal and comprehensive assessment must be conducted!
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