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Assignment: Completing a Psychosocial Assessment

Cooper and Lesser (2015) state, "From a human rights perspective, assessments of individuals and families should include an awareness of their basic human rights ... Assessments should be expanded past the presenting problem into the realm of shelter, information, food, employment, legal, community, medical, cultural, and political realities in their lives".

Question 1: You may be skilled at conducting assessments that lead to a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis. Are you also acquainted with the practice of incorporating psychosocial issues into a client's assessment? A psychosocial assessment differs from a DSMdiagnosis in a number of ways, but especially with regard to the collection of considerably more personal history and detailed information about psychosocial issues. Treatment planning, especially for social workers, requires a lot of attention to psychosocial issues.