Question

Describe how a family assessment is different from an individual client assessment. References should be included at the end of the answer and in a reference page for complete credit

Answer 1

The family assessment differ from an individual assessment as family is consist of the members. Each member may or may not have the same disease or the illness. To assessing family is little difficult as assessing individual. It is important to provide proper education and knowledge regarding healthcare to each family members.It is critical to understand for the family and nurse as what is the major health issues for the family because there are different people and they have their own sign and symptoms. So, it becomes difficult to know about the particular reason for the illness or disease as well as encouraging family members to indulge themselves in proper lifestyle.The study aimed to examine the influence of initial mode of assessment on attendance, and later assessment and treatment. 100 children newly referred to a child mental health service were randomly assigned to (i) initial family assessment; child and family seen together, or (ii) individual assessment, child and parents seen in parallel. Those invited were more likely to attend following "individual" appointment letters because parents did not always bring all the children in response to "family" appointment letters. Failure to attend the second appointment occurred twice as often if there was a change in who was asked to attend. Psychometric assessment was more often requested following an initial family interview. Long term mode of therapy appeared to be partly but not wholly influenced by initial assessment method. Results suggest that sustained co-operation with long term therapy is more likely to occur when clinicians vary the family members they are working with according to the needs of the case.