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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Assessment Models and Theoretical Frameworks

HSC405 · Assessment Processes in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 1 of 16

CourseHSC405
Week1 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Assessment Models and Theoretical Frameworks

  1. Medical versus social models of disability
  2. Biopsychosocial framework
  3. Strengths-based assessment approaches
  4. Holistic assessment models
  5. What is a strengths-based approach?
  6. STRENGTHS-BASED PERSPECTIVE for Social Work

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Explain the purpose of different assessment models.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the purpose of different assessment models.

Study materials

Videos

  • What is a strengths-based approach? · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 9 min · for registered students
  • STRENGTHS-BASED PERSPECTIVE for Social Work · YouTube · Anna Bea · 13 min · for registered students
  • Webinar recording: Strengths-based approaches - Practice Framework & handbook · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 58 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Strengths-based approach: practice framework and handbook (DHSC, 2019) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014, DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NICE NG22, 2015) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
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Week 2
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Assessment Models and Theoretical Frameworks
  • Week 2: Assessment Tools in Practice
  • Week 3: Partnership Working in Assessment
  • Week 4: Person-Centred Assessment Practice
  • Week 5: Conducting the Assessment Process
  • Week 6: Referral Pathways and Triggers
  • Week 7: Co-Producing Care and Support Plans
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Evaluation and Action Planning Post-Assessment
  • Week 10: Staff Instruction on Assessment Frameworks and Tools
  • Week 11: Assessing Staff Competence and Family Impact
  • Week 12: Applying Assessment Processes in Health and Social Care Set…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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