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[Episode 4] This is part two of a two-part series on Crisis Intervention. In this lecture, I discuss individual crisis intervention within the context of Roberts's Seven-Stage Model of Crisis Intervention, and the most popular group crisis intervention model currently in use, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. The podcast ends with a detailed review of suicide assessment. Please visit: http://www.socialworkpodcast.com/2007/01/crisis-intervention-and-suicide.html for the first part of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Assessment. Download MP3 [21:24] Transcript [0:00:13] Now that you�ve assessed the affective, behavioral and cognitive domains of your client, we're going to move to the intervention model for today�s lecture. And although there are a variety of intervention models, including James and Gilliland (they have a 6-stage intervention model) and Hillman (has a 14-stage model of intervention), I'm going to talk today about Roberts� 7-stage model for crisis interv

[Episode 3] This is part one of a two-part series on Crisis Intervention. In this lecture, I provide a brief overview of the history of modern crisis intervention and crisis theory. I discuss two approaches to crisis assessment, Myer's Triage Assessment Model and the Dilation-Constriction Continuum model. Please visit: http://www.socialworkpodcast.com/2007/02/crisis-intervention-and-suicide.html for the second part of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Assessment. Download MP3 [34:31] Transcript CRISIS INTERVENTION 01-64 [00:00:13] Today�s topic is Crisis Intervention and we're going to be looking at three areas of intervention. We're going to start out by taking a look at crisis assessment: what you do to figure out what's going on with the affective, behavioral and cognitive functioning of your client. We're going to follow up with crisis intervention. As with all interventions, you start with the assessment and then you move on to what you actually do to resolv

[Episode 2] This is the second part of a two-part lecture on diagnosis and assessment. In the first episode I reviewed the history of the DSM and the multiaxial system. In this lecture, I discuss the Bio-psychosocial-spiritual (BPSS) assessment as the means for providing context for the client's presenting problems. I discuss the purpose of each of the four life domains and how the information is used in social work practice. Emphasis is placed on solution-focused approaches to assessment. I end with a brief description of traditional format for organizing observations about the client - the Mental Status Exam. Download MP3 [17:40] Transcript Now we're going to talk about the biopsychosocial spiritual assessment.  Obviously, there are four components to this assessment.  You look at the biology, the psychology, the sociocultural and the spiritual.  I'm going to refer to the biopsychosocial spiritual as the BPSS assessment. Basically, it's a concise summary of client

[Episode 1] This is the first part of a two-part lecture on diagnosis and assessment. The Bio-psychosocial-spiritual (BPSS) assessment and the DSM diagnosis are the two most common types of assessments made by social workers. In this lecture, I briefly review the history of DSM diagnosis, from the creation of the first ICD in 1900 to the most recent text revision of the DSM-IV in 2000. I discuss the multiaxial system and provide examples. I transition from DSM diagnosis to the BPSS assessment by discussing the similarities and differences between the two assessments. Download MP3 [24:26] Transcript Today�s lecture is on DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) diagnosis and biopsychosocialspiritual assessment. We are going to start out by distinguishing the two and then we�re going to focus on DSM for the first part of the lecture. Go over a little bit of the history, focus on the multi-axial system, and then were going to talk about biopsychosocialspiritual asse