LibGuides: SWR-375: Week 4 Resources

Week 4 Required Resources

Textbook

Your course textbook can be accessed via the Redshelf link in the Getting Started module.

Kirst-Ashman, K.K., & Hull, Jr., G.H. (2018). Understanding generalist practice. Cengage Learning.

Read Chapter 5. This chapter of the text provides Kirst-Ashman and Hull’s conceptualization of the knowledge and skills of engagement and assessment.

Articles

Biopsychosocial Assessment: Why the Biopsycho and Rarely the Social?
Barkley, J. (2009). Biopsychosocial assessment: Why the biopsycho and rarely the social? Canadian Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 18(4), 344-347.
Understanding the client’s social context is essential for a comprehensive assessment of the client. This article discusses and provides insight into why the social context is often overlooked.
Respectful Counseling: An Integrative Multidimensional Model for Counselors
D’Andrea, M., & Daniels, J. (2000). Respectful counseling: An integrative multidimensional model for counselors. In D.B. Pope-Davis et al. (Eds.), The intersection of race, class, and gender in multicultural counseling (pp. 417-466). Sage.
While there are many ways to think about race, class, and gender, this reading provides one approach to consider.

Biopsychosocial Assessment: Why the Biopsycho and Rarely the Social?
Hunt, J. (2014). Bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment: Teaching the skill of spiritual assessment. Social Work & Christianity, 41(4), 373-384.
Attention to clients’ spiritual worlds is a recent addition to assessment practices. This article discusses skills for spiritual assessment.
Assessment as a Site of Anti/oppressive Social Work Practice: Negotiating with Power and the De/professionalisation of Social Work
Lee, E. (2022). Assessment as a site of anti/oppressive social work practice: Negotiating with power and the de/professionalisation of social work. British Journal of Social Work, 52, 4378-4400.
Anti-oppressive practice needs to be considered at every stage of the GIM which is discussed in this article.

Videos

Grande, T. (2016, February 24). Intake and assessment role play: Part 3- Social, medical, and mental health history [Video]. YouTube.

This video demonstrates one way of gathering information on collecting social, medical, and mental health history in an intake assessment.

Grande, T. (2016, February 24). Intake and assessment role play: Part 4- Education, work, and legal history [Video]. YouTube.

This video demonstrates one way of gathering information on collecting education, work, and legal history in an intake assessment.

Grande, T. (2016, February 24). Intake and assessment role play: Part 5- Spiritual, cultural, and abuse history [Video]. YouTube.

This video demonstrates one way of gathering information on collecting spiritual, cultural, and abuse history in an intake assessment.

Allison, K., & Nightbird, M. (2020). Questions & probing for concreteness [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/gbPPRPzB40Q

First, watch the video without looking at the interview transcript, paying attention to the skills used by the counselor. Watch the video a second time, reading the transcript along with it. Notice the annotations in the transcript and see if you can see the skills identified in the transcript being carried out in the video.

Questions & probing for concreteness [Interview Transcript].
Allison, K., & Nightbird, M. (2020). Questions & probing for concreteness [Interview Transcript]. https://youtu.be/gbPPRPzB40Q