A Study of Social Work Assessment and Planning from Theoretical and Practical Viewpoint

本研究的目的是从理论和实践的角度研究社会工作评估与规划的关系和特点。我们试图通过在六个社会工作领域进行调查、评估和规划来达到这一目的。研究范围包括老人、儿童及家庭社工、医院服务对象、肢体伤残人士、弱智人士及精神病人，因此，社工会因应服务对象的需要而改变弹性评估项目。因此，除了性别、年龄、职业等基本因素外，我们没有在六个领域中找到共同的测评项目。在计划方面，我们三年都没有取得好的结果。然而，我们发现，在客户和社会工作者从评估到规划的过程中，除了六个领域的差异之外，还有许多共同的元素。例如，社会工作者关注受助人的独立性(控制点)，并考虑如何在评估和规划过程中最大限度地发挥其独立性。此外，评估表的使用方式取决于社会工作者的能力。由此可见，这些评估和规划的特点意味着社会工作的价值是经过三年多的研究人员和从业人员的合作而产生的。

The purpose of this study was to research relationship and characteristics of assessment and planning in social work from theoretical and practical viewpoint. We tried to attain this purpose by investigating assessment and planning in six fields of social work. The fields include of social work with an elderly, children and families, a client in the hospital, a physically handicapped, a mentally retarded and a mental patient.As a result, we came to the conclusion that social workers changed flexibility assessment items depending on client's needs. For that, we didn't find common assessment items among six fields except for fundamental elements which are sex, age, job and so on. In regard to planning, we weren't able to get good results for three years. However, we found many common elements beyond difference of six fields in a process that a client and a social worker work together from assessment to planning. For example, social workers focused on a client's independence (locus of control) and considered how to make the best of his independence in assessment and planning process. In addition, a way of using assessment sheets depended on social workers competency.It follows from what has been said that these characteristics of assessment and planning mean value of social work by collaborating many researchers and practitioners for three years.