Psychosocial Assessment

Psychosocial Assessment

Introduction

Intervention - a general term for any effects of having to change the current behavior of another person, or selected by a course of conduct. In carrying out behavior change interventions are making, either directly affecting it, or manipulating environmental variables, or performing a combination of both. In a typical context, the term used to refer to the erosion of the symptom, concern (anxiety), or behavioral problems that adversely affect the growth, functioning and well-being of people. In addition, the intervention can be applied in order to prevent behavioral dysfunction or human development. Marital counseling and advice on career development - all these are examples of applications.

This can be described in the space of two dimensions. The first dimension - it is the context in a rum-it is done. The context is formed by the parties involved in the process of intervention, and performed their roles. The second dimension - is the process itself, the actual actions performed by the participants.

Context

Intervention can be considered only those cases where the presence of symptoms, anxiety or behavior problems declares him attendees. The client is served by a party to the other side of - a specialist intervention (e.g., therapist, consultant, counselor, etc.) - providing the relevant services. In most cases, the client - a voluntary, to make independent decisions participant in the process of intervention, to asked for help in resolving problems arising from it. From specialist intervention is expected to show an understanding of and apply all their professional skills to help clients cope with the problem. Effective intervention requires the involvement, at least one client and one specialist. However, this process may be involved several clients and / or specialists. For example, group psycho involves several clients, and sometimes co-therapists.

Process

There are various theories and approaches, with appropriate methods of exposure to describe the intervention process and its outcome, for example, Psychodynamic theory, klientotsentrirovannaya theory and behaviorism. Numerous researchers at every opportunity noted the apparent contradiction and lack of unity among the many different approaches in practice. Therefore, this area is clearly lacking in the majority of shared conceptual and terminological apparatus for a detailed description of the interventions at operational level.

Various approaches have a common goal. They are all aimed at facilitating the resolution of problems or human. Behavior, regardless of their nature: therapeutic, prophylactic or associated with the development. By concentrating on that common goal, in recent years has been a tendency to describe the intervention as a problem-solving process. With so sp. the solution of the intervention as a process of bridging the gap between the current state of the client and the preferred state, to-Roe decision seems to set out their problems. At this level of abstraction, the intervention can be described independently of succession particular theoretical position in terms of procedural activity, common to most approaches.

Determining the Current State of the Client

Initial efforts in the course of an intervention aimed at getting more realistic and detailed evaluation of what circumstances in the troubled situation of ...