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Quiz
Share the information with clients and families!
Use broad measures that help you gather the bigger picture.
Gather the information in a way that works for the client.
Demystify the process!
Address their concerns and answer their questions!
Provide Feedback
Look at the whole picture
Be Engaging and Flexible
Psychoeducation
Listen to Caregivers/clients
You Have to buy in
Assessments are valuable!
Trauma Informed Assessment checklist
It's not a secret!
- We did this for them, remind them why.
- Highlight strengths and talk about how those strengths can be used in treatment.
- Share the consistencies and inconsistencies between raters. Symptoms may be experienced differently.
- Ask if the results seem accurate.
- Connect symptoms to diagnoses and use an opportunity to provide psychoeducation (e.g., clients who experience trauma often have difficulties with concentration, irritability, sleep difficulties).
Provide different options
- Use a dry erase board or chalk board
- Give them a fun colored pen
- Use visuals like cups or calendars to help understand the scale
- Offer to read them aloud
- Gather more information through follow up questions after completing the measure.
- Break up measures if it's too much to do at once
Demystify the process!
- We want clients to understand what we are doing and why.
- Explain what measures you are using and why you are using them.
- Help clients and their families understand the value of the assessments and how it will help the treatment process and suport development of treatment goals (make sure you don't make them feel like it's just another piece of required paperwork).
We have to listen!
- Make sure you ask what their concerns are.
- Validate their observations.
- Answer their questions (even if they don't line up with yours).
- Use assessments to help gather information in the areas they are curious about.
Look beyond your initial assumption
- We all come into DAs with diagnostic biases. We tend to see certain symptoms more easily than others, often due to how we were trained or our previous professional experiences.
- We want to be sure we are looking at symptoms broadly to see what fits with our initial conceptualization of the case and what does not fit. We need to be open to diagnoses or treatment plans that differ from our initial assumptions.
It's not just paperwork!
- If you are going to use assessment tools with your client, and you want clients to buy in, first you have to buy in!
- These tools can give you useful information that can guide your interventions and help see the progress that is being made!
- They can help us make sure we are looking at the whole picture, helps protect against bias or tunnel vision.