Instructions for work # 3: please answer the 2 Questions that the professor is asking in reference to my posted discussion # 1for week9. At leastone-hole page for both answers in proper APA format. Support all written Ideas in your answer with citations in proper APA format treat each answer as a separetly work and each Work needs a separetly references

Discussion

What are you hoping to use the information to help your client?

Dr. Braxton

Professor's Questions to be answer

3. Cheraldo, thanks for your post, why did you select the tool?

What are you hoping to use the information to help your client?

This is my posted discussion from witch the professor's question is referring to. You need to answer the professor's Questions in reference to this discussion that I posted for Week 9 discussion 1

Discussion : Treatment Evaluation

In "Working with Clients with HIV/AIDS: The Case of Pedro", Pedro is a 58 year old man who is heterosexual and was separated from his family. Pedro was not comfortable with confiding in a social worker because he was not sure that he would receive any help (Kristen, 2004).

However, the social worker succeeded in creating a rapport with Pedro and he got him to trust his work. The social worker therefore was tasked with ensuring that he did a great a job to solve Pedro's needs. There are a number of screening tools that can be used for evaluation in this particular scenario but the most appropriate is the Duke Health Profile.

This tool is a generic self-report instrument that consists of 17 items and 6 applicable health measures namely self-esteem, perceived, social, mental, general and physical health. It also has four dysfunctional measures namely disability, depression, anxiety and pain (Shuntermann, 1997). These items were derived from a profile that focused on item-remainder and face validity correlations.

This generic questionnaire was designed to quantitatively measure the self-reported functional health status of an individual. This questionnaire takes approximately five minutes to fill out and the evaluation is done progressively over a one-week time frame.

The profile feels a better understanding of how he client feels about themselves and how they have been feeling over the last one week (Parkerson, et.al., 1990). Once the final score is attained, he social worker can be able to evaluate if their treatment is working or not. This evaluating tool is reliable because the client has to answer open-ended questions that have no definite pick answers. They are therefore likely to tell the truth regarding how they feel about their life and the impact that the social worker is having on their lives.

References

Kristen, A. S. (2004). A Structured Group for Gay Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Parkerson G.R. Jr, Broadhead, W.E, Tse, C. The Duke Health Profile, a 17- Item measure of health and dysfunction. Medical Care1990; 28(11):1056-1072.

Schuntermann, 1997.The Duke Health Profile. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9213865 on July 8, 2017