Development and dissemination of a social work assessment skills training program for psychiatric social workers: evidence-based action assignments and evaluation.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530778
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Nihon Fukushi University
• Principal Investigator: OTANI Kyoko 日本福祉大学, 社会福祉学部, 准教授 (90434612)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YOSHIDA Miyuki 同朋大学, 社会福祉学部, 准教授 (70445930) ; TERAZAWA Norihiro 日本福祉大学, 社会福祉学部, 助教 (80548636) ; TANAKA Kazuhiko 日本福祉大学, 福祉経営学部, 助教 (10440801)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2014
• Keywords: ソーシャルワーク / アセスメント / 精神保健福祉士 / 研修プログラム / スキル / mixed method

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The assessment process, which is assumed as the key to social work, was clarified. And moreover we extracted the skills utilized in each phase of the process. When skill extraction, we integrated the skills required from the client eyes, and the skills implemented by experts. We identified that the hypothesis - verification - sharing process is the key for holistic clients understanding and also for improving the assessment skills of social workers. Furthermore, we develop a program to train skills for carrying out these processes and summarizes the final version to the booklet based on the trial and correction.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学