RAPID ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS: TOOLS FOR THE …

750 First Street, NE Suite 700 Washington, DC Association of Social WorkersSpecialty Practice Sections 2004 National Association of Social Rights THIS ISSUER apid ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS: TOOLS for the AccountableProfessional .. 1 From the Editor .. 2 ADHERE: A Practice Model forEnhancing Client Follow-through with RecommendedTreatments .. 3 Social History Updates .. 7 The Mental Health SectionCommittee Welcomes MarkSmith .. 8A Focus on Ethics .. 9 SPRING 2004 RAPID ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS: TOOLS FOR THE ACCOUNTABLE PROFESSIONALSee RAPID ASSESSMENT Instruments, Page 11 Steven L. McMurtry, PhD and Susan J. Rose, PhDIn the current era of managed care, directcontact time with clients is often severelyconstrained, and practitioners face adifficult task in dividing the minutesavailable among such varied tasks asproblem identification, relationshipdevelopment, intervention, and guidingthe client toward termination. In addition,as funding sources requirements foraccountability and quality control in-crease, practitioners must also completeinitial assessments, monitor progress on anongoing basis, and evaluate care methods often seem para-doxical for mental health professionals, inthat they limit client contact time andthus measurement time while mandatinggreater accountability that can be accom-plished only through improved measure-ment.

Mueller, 2004; Linsk & Bonk, 1999). Intervention research indicates that adherence intent and behavior are associated with knowledge relevant to health recommenda-tions, attitudes about the disease and its treatment, and sociocultural norms transmit-ted through the family and other groups with which individuals identify (DiMatteo & DiNicola, 1982).

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