Family and Individual Assessment

Family and Individual Assessment

Part 1

The family assessment is a continuous process of explaining and communicating with the decision making process by acknowledging, considering and judging the factors that will have an influence on the children, children and their families (Hanson, 2005). The evaluation starts when the child and family come into attention of authorities and follow-ups happen when the case closes too.

An individual assessment is the one in which clients are considered as only one person and the family is not involved. For an individual assessment, the nurses take a comprehensive look onto the person. The components of the assessment comprise of observation, physical examination and reporting. This helps only an individual.

There have been many favorable outcomes, and that have been associated with family assessment and delivery of support (Black & Lobo, 2008). So they are very significant for the community. Those treatment plans, which are made with the input, are made with family, and patient's information is more successful than what would likely be an individual strategy. It helps in family problem solving in regards with various issues There is a significant reduction in the risk levels of family. This has stopped concerns regarding child protection from escalating. It has allowed the agencies to be swifter and early in recognizing the interests of child protection. It gives all members a voice and engages all thus more understanding takes place. I also promote reflective practice.

For family assessment, the central distinguishing factor is that an interrelationship between the family members is looked and how these have an impact on the members of the family (Ladewig, et. al 2011). Family assessment is vital in providing adequate support Even though an individual is identified as a patient, it does affect the entire structure and organization of the family. They need to adjust to accommodate to the changes made by the disease. Therefore, families are also in need of nursing, and they provide a wealth of information that helps the patient immensely. They should consider each other as allies. In order for one to help families to come in terms with the disease it is necessary for the nurse to understand the family unit. Along with how the illness will affect the m and what support they require. These things if well understood will able the recovery process to speed up.

Part 2

There are significant disciplinary and theoretical influences that need to be focused to consider the appropriateness of tool selected for family assessment (Hinton, 2008). The assessment tool used would be the Calgary Family Assessment Model in the case of Gamal. The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) is a multidimensional, integrated framework and is based on cybernetics, communication, systems, and change theoretical foundations.

Discussion on Article

The CFAM has 3 key family life categories which are then divided into sub categories. As a nurse, I will choose the relevant categories and explore them. As this family has subsets ties CFAM suits them.

First is the structural which can be further branched off into ...