I read an interesting article recently, from the Journal of Social Work Education, the title was “An Evaluation of Prepracticum Helping Skills Training for Graduate Social Work Students.” The abstract is reproduced below: “Although foundational practice classes play a key role in helping prepracticum students develop counseling skills, we know little about the effectiveness of…
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The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR)
New! This article has been updated August 9, 2016 to include more information about the scoring and links to useful tools to accompany. The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR) is a tool that nurses can utilize to assess for suicide risk in a clinical, inpatient environment. The tool was originally developed to assist…
Assessing Elder Abuse with the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE)
The purpose of the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) is to detect potential abuse of seniors by caregivers. It is a screening tool, not an assessment tool, so like other screening tools it should be administered to all caregivers whether abuse is suspected or not. The CASE tool was created by Myrna Reis and Daphne Nahmiash…
Conducting Psychosocial Assessments
As a Social Service Worker student I spent 8 months as a Bereavement and Palliative Care Case Manager with Durham Hospice, an organization that provides counselling, peer support and friendly visiting individually and in group sessions for individuals suffering from life-limiting illnesses (in particular those with less than a year to live) and those who…
Fowler Technical Effectiveness Scale
Fowler Technical Effectiveness Scale Fowler, D.E., McGee, R.K. (1973) Assessing the performance of telephone crisis workers: The development of a Technical Effectiveness Scale. In D. Lester & G.W. Brockopp (Eds.). Crisis Intervention and Counseling by Telephone. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1973. Question Criteria 1. Can the caller be immediately reconnected? In order to answer…