Hernandez Family Assessment

Assessment is as essential to family therapy as it is to individual therapy. Although families often present with one person identified as the “problem,” the assessment process will help you better understand family roles and determine whether the identified problem client is in fact the root of the family’s issues. As you examine the Hernandez Family: Sessions 1-6 videos in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat the client family.

Learning Objectives
Students will:
Assess client families presenting for psychotherapy
To prepare:

View the Hernandez Family: Sessions 1-6 videos, and consider how you might assess the family in the case study.
The Assignment

Address in a comprehensive client assessment of the Hernandez family the following:

Demographic information
Presenting problem
History or present illness
Past psychiatric history
Medical history
Substance use history
Developmental history
Family psychiatric history
Psychosocial history
History of abuse and/or trauma
Review of systems
Physical assessment
Mental status exam
Differential diagnosis
Case formulation
Treatment plan
-start your paper by short paragraph about the purpose of the paper.

Note: Any item you are unable to address from the video should be marked “needs to be added to” as you would in an actual comprehensive client assessment