Simington Family Assessment

Simington Family Assessment

Assignment Objective:  To write a clear/concise summary of the Simington family including goals and activities to better understand the following.

• Family strengths/family successes while acknowledging their challenges
• Family uniqueness
• Family relationships and how they form the foundation of change.

Focus/Issues Identified: (Use these themes when creating your three activities)

• Lack of Consistency (between mom and dad when addressing behavior)
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving

Family Overview/Observations (Be sure to introduce the family and the purpose of the report)

Simington Family Assessment

Below are things you should consider when writing your summary based on the case study It is best to create a chart and then as you are going through the case study, you can jot down your findings.  Remember, you can complete this assignment individually or in pairsJ

• Individual Strengths of all members
• Family Strengths
• Family Successes
• Individual Challenges
• Family Challenges
• Family Uniqueness
• Family Relationships
• Family’s Perspective
• Individual stage of development (Erikison) How this might explain the challenges.
• Family stage of development (Duvall) How this might explain the challenges.
• Family Potential

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Summary and Recommendations:  Strength-based, systems perspective (ecological system), respecting the family’s perspective, family development stage, draw conclusions that inform the plan (formulation and prognosis) (There is an article in the resource section to help you with this

Simington Family Assessment

3 Goals: Based on family needs and builds on the family strengths (Use the template in your Field Manual)

• WHAT will change? (goal/objective)
• HOW change will occur? (strategies)
• HOW will you know change has occurred? (evidence)
• WHEN changes will occur (timeline)
• WHO will be part of achieving this goal?

Family Activities for each of the three issues above and identified in the initial family assessment. (Use the template in the assignment outline)

Below are things you should consider when writing your summary based on the case study It is best to create a chart and then as you are going through the case study, you can jot down your findings.  Remember, you can complete this assignment individually or in pairs