Family Assessment Week 14
Family Assessment Week 14
Assessment is as essential to family therapy as it is to individual treatment. Although families often present with one person identified as the “problem,” the assessment process will help you better understand family roles and determine whether the identified problem client is the root of the family’s issues.
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To prepare:
· Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on their insights on family assessment. Be sure to review the resource on psychotherapy genograms.
· Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note Template and review the documentation requirements. There is also an example provided with detailed guidance and standards.
· View the Mother and Daughter: A Cultural Tale video in the Learning Resources and consider how you might assess the family in the case study.
The Assignment
Document the following for the family in the video using the Comprehensive Evaluation Note Template:
· Chief complaint
· History of present illness
· Past psychiatric History
· Substance use history
· Family psychiatric/substance use history
· Psychosocial history/Developmental history
· Medical History
· Review of systems (ROS)
· Physical assessment (if applicable)
· Mental status exam
· Differential diagnosis—Include a minimum of three differential diagnoses and include how you derived each diagnosis by DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
· Case formulation and treatment plan
· Include a psychotherapy genogram for the family
Note: For any item you cannot address from the video, explain how you would gather this information and why it is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning.
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Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in, and make corrections as necessary. Often, having a friend proofread your essay for obvious errors is advantageous. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
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