Assessment Flashcards
Conduct the assessment process
Client Assessment
Tool to gather baseline information for program placement, monitoring progress, and evaluating involvement of client.
It may also be used to determine the most effective and efficient interventions for clients or groups of clients.
Assessment Principle 1
Assessment is a systematic process of deciding what information is important to gather, how to collect the information, how to analyze results and what kinds of decisions are appropriate from the data gathered.
Assessment Principle 2
There must be a logical connection between the assessment and programs delivered to clients.
Assessment Principle 3
The assessment process must yield dependable and consistent results in order to be useful.
Assessment Principle 4
Client placement into programs should be based on assessment results, not just opinions or judgements of the specialist
Assessment Principle 5
The assessment process should provide baseline information from which a client’s progression or regression as the result of participation in programs can be judged.
Cultural Orientation
A person’s cultural orientation can be categorized by traditional, marginal, bicultural, and assimilation. A person’s cultural orientation will impact how he/she reacts to the assessment and programming process.
Assessment properties as a measurement tool
Validity, reliability, fairness, practicability and usability.
Validity
Extent to which it meets its intended purpose. It concerns what the test measurements and how well it does so.
Reliability
Estimate of consistency of the assessment results
Fairness
Reduction or elimination of undue bias or stereotypes
Practicability and Usability
Nonstatistical concept that is concerned with reasonableness of the assessment
Assessment Domains
Sensory, Cognitive, Social, Physical, Affective, Leisure, Functional Skills
Social Assessment
Assessing the social impacts of planned interventions or events and for developing strategies for the ongoing monitoring and management of those impacts.
It is concerned with the patient’s communication/interactive skills: such as initiating a conversation, responding appropriately to questions, and developing a support network.
Physical Assessment
Assessing a patient’s fitness, gross motor, and fine motor skills. Eye-hand coordination and other physical functioning skills.
Affective Assessment
Functioning skills in the affective emotional domain: patient’s attitude towards self, when expressing emotions, etc.
Cognitive Assessment
Assessing patient’s long/short term memory, ability to solve problems, attention span. Also concerned with patient’s orientation (person, place and time) and safety awareness.
Sensory Assessment
Evaluating patient’s ability to see and hear, tactile abilities
Leisure Assessment
Assessment of patient’s leisure functioning, barriers, leisure interests and attitudes, as well as patient’s knowledge and understanding of leisure.
Functional Skills Assessment
Assessing the patient’s understanding of the world he/she will be returning. Such as, utilizing recreational/leisure skills to re-integrate to community, level of skill in specific tasks upon discharge. (i.e. Does the patient know how to use public transportation? Will the patient have access to his/her community upon discharge?)
Assessment implementation process
Seven steps:
1. reviewing the assessment protocol
2. Preparing for assessment
3. Administering assessment to the patient
4. Analyzing or scoring the assessment results
5. Interpreting results for placement into programs
6. Documenting results of assessment
7. Reassessing the patient as necessary/monitoring the progress
