{"id":33,"date":"2016-04-07T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T16:58:27","slug":"assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a Psychosocial Assessment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As your social worker, one of the most important documents in order to convey\u00a0information about you is the psychosocial assessment. A psychosocial assessment\u00a0is the social worker\u2019s summary as to the problems to be solved. The social worker\u00a0considers a variety of factors, which may include the substance use\/physical\/psychiatric illness\u00a0and its impact, results derived from psychological tests, legal status, descriptions of\u00a0the problem(s), existing assets and resources, the prognosis or prediction of\u00a0outcome(s), and the plan designed to resolve the problem(s).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your psychosocial assessment should:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communicate pertinent information about you to other professionals for\u00a0case planning and referral purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Establish in writing an account of \u201cwhere you are at\u201d at a particular\u00a0moment in time during service provision; the psychosocial assessment offers baseline information about you when you entered Fort\u00a0Smith Behavioral Health during a specific treatment episode.<\/li>\n<li>Offer the social worker an opportunity to reflect on, refine thinking, and\u00a0raise questions about you and your situation \u2013 to digest information about\u00a0and impressions about you through the process of writing about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>At Fort Smith Behavioral Health we assign up to four\u00a0Individual Therapeutic Sessions, so that you can feel\u00a0heard and understood. Through this understanding a\u00a0personalized treatment plan can be developed for our\u00a0future work together.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Psychosocial Assessment? As your social worker, one of the most important documents in order to convey\u00a0information about you is the psychosocial assessment. A psychosocial assessment\u00a0is the social worker\u2019s summary as to the problems to be solved. The social worker\u00a0considers a variety of factors, which may include the substance use\/physical\/psychiatric illness\u00a0and its impact,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsmithbehavioralhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}