Involvement in supporting and serving other people

Involvement in supporting and serving other people

This is an essay that discusses a person’s involvement in supporting and serving other people. The paper also looks at the causes and contributions of presenting problems.

A person’s involvement in supporting and serving other people

1. People Involved:

Firstly, who are the people involved in supporting and serving this person? Also, how well do they engage, involve, and commit to helping this person get better, do better, and stay better?

2. Expectations:

Secondly, what outcomes of intervention are people expecting to achieve? The person? The family, life partner, and/or key supporters? The school or employer? The court? Service providers?

3. Causes & Contributors of Presenting Problems:

Thirdly, what bio-psycho-social factors, life circumstances, and underlying issues explain the person’s presenting problem(s) and current unmet needs?
4. Risk Factors:

Fourthly, based on history and tendencies, what things could go wrong in this person’s life? Also, what should be done to avoid or prevent future harm, pain, loss, or undue hardship?

5. Functional Strengths & Assets:

Additionally, what are the person’s functional strengths, aspirations for change, and life assets that can be built up to solve the problem(s) that brought the person into services?

6. Critical Unmet Needs:

Then, what presently unmet needs would have to fulfill in order for this person to get better, do better, and stay better?
7. Points of Consensus & Dispute:

On what key matters, if any, do the people involved agree at this time? What other key matters, if any, may be in dispute at this time? What impact, if any, are unresolve disputes having on decision-making about needs, risks, outcomes, interventions or commitments to the change process?

8. Necessary Changes:

Lastly, what things in the person’s life would have to change in order for the person to achieve adequate well-being, have essential supports for living, function adequately in daily activities, and fulfill key life roles – as appropriate to life stage, capacities, and preferences?

9. Essential Outcomes: What life conditions, will indicate that the person’s problem(s) is/are solve?