FT assessment tools
A pictorial representation of a family that helps social workers understand family traditions and system structure.
What is a genogram?
This framework helps social workers understand how clients’ life journeys are shaped by personal events and choices, timing, and historical context.
What is the life course perspective?
A type of group such as a work committee that comes together for a specific purpose.
What is a task group?
This model of group development that includes five stages, including forming and storming.
What is Tuckman’s model?
Group facilitators must simultaneously pay attention to these two aspects of the group experience.
What are content and process?
An interviewing strategy designed to elicit information about family, interactions, and help family members understand how their behaviors are interconnected in a repeating loop rather than a simple cause-and-effect relationship.
What is circular questioning?
A foundational mindset or social work practice approach that recognizes how past adversity shaped fundamental beliefs, current behaviors, and psychosocial functioning
What is trauma inform social work practice?
A term for the social processes and behaviors that occur within and between people in a group.
What are group dynamics?
In this stage observable behaviors include vying for leadership, power struggles, and lack of progress.
What is storming?
A stages-of-change model often used in chemical dependency groups in which the leader or facilitator builds discrepancy between member‘s current state and their hoped-for state.
What is the Motivational Interviewing?
A diagram used in assessing a client systems, cultural background, including reason for relocation, values about family, structure, and power, and legal status.
What is a Culturagram?
The social worker role r/t bringing together groups and helping them use their skills and resources to create positive change.
What is a group facilitator?
Healthy groups are a source of this, which is the process of helping each other.
What is mutual aid?
In this stage, the group members must ready themselves for the separating from the group.
What is the adjourning stage?
This category of group roles focuses on taking care of feelings and the relationships between group members and include harmonizer, compromiser, and tension releaser.
What are Socioemotional roles?
Data or insights gathered from sources other than the primary client being assessed.
What is collateral information?
Especially useful for non-voluntary members, this future-focused approach highlights strengths and existing resources rather than dwelling on problems.
What is the solution-focused approach ?
The bond formed between group members that make members want to remain part of a group.
What is cohesion?
In this stage members have worked out norms and roles and get work done.
What is performing?
The stage of change where group members have not yet internalize their need for change.
What is the pre- contemplation stage?
A visual diagram of the family system, their social and community supports and the relationships among them.
What is a Ecomap?
A problem-solving intervention often used during group when a member is experiencing personal instability. (may involve providing psychological, first aid component such as safety and comfort, and stabilization).
What is crisis intervention?
A formal group such as a psychoeducational or support group that is led by a professional to help individual members make positive changes.
What is a treatment group or therapy group?
While rarely stated (and instead emerging from interactions), these acceptable group behaviors lead to greater group cohesion.
What are group norms?
The collaborative process where two or or more people work together to plan, design and lead a group.
What is co-facilitation?