Assignment: Family Assessment
Assessment is as essential to family therapy as it is to individual therapy. Although families often present with one person identified as the “problem,” the assessment process will help you better understand family roles and determine whether the identified problem client is in fact the root of the family’s issues.
- Be sure to review the resource on psychotherapy genograms.
- Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note Template and review the requirements of the documentation. There is also an exemplar provided with detailed guidance and examples.
- View the Mother and Daughter: A Cultural Tale video transcript in the Learning Resources and consider how you might assess the family in the case study.
Note: For any item you are unable to address from the video, explain how you would gather this information and why it is important for diagnosis and treatment planning.
The resource on psychotherapy genograms
Therapist Aid. (2012–2020). Genograms for psychotherapy. https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-guide/genograms
https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-guide/genograms
Resource
American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787
