For this assignment, you will write biopsychosocial assessment of an individual. You will watch the film Fences that is available to you via the provided link
on the course Blackboard site. You should select one member of the Maxson family to be the focus of your assessment.
Your assessment of the client must include biological, psychological, social, environmental, and spiritual factors. You should use the biopsychosocial outline
below as a framework for writing your paper.
Required Outline for Writing Assessment:
Part 1: Biopsychosocial Assessment
• Basic Information: Provide a general descriiption of the client, including the following identifying information: name, age (approximate if not known exactly),
gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religion, language spoken.
• Background and Current Functioning:
• Family composition and background
• Educational background
• Employment and vocational skills
• Religious/spiritual involvement
• Physical functioning, health conditions, and medical background
• Psychological and psychiatric functioning and background
• Social, community, and recreational activities
• Food, clothing, housing status/needs
• Legal concerns
• Cultural background: race/ethnicity, primary language/other languages spoken,
significance of cultural identity, cultural strengths, experiences of discrimination or oppression, migration experience and impact of migration on individual
and family life cycle; experiences of racism or oppression; socioeconomic status, gender, and intersectionality)
• Other environmental or psychosocial factors (e.g.) strains and/or stressors. For example, this section may include a discussion of social context; power
structure; gender, roles.
• Client strengths, capacities and resources (i.e.) ego functioning
• Impressions, Assessment, and Recommendations
• Clinical Summary, Impressions, and Assessment
• Goals and Recommendations for Work with Client
Part 2: Theoretical Framework
• Discuss the Person-in-Environment perspective/Systems Theory
• Discuss life cycle factors (individual and family)
• Describe the client’s Ego Functioning (identifying clients’ strengths, coping and defense mechanisms)
• Lastly, include relevant ethical issues, including dilemmas, confidentiality, informed consent issues in this case.
Part 3: Recommendations/Proposed Intervention
• Tentative Goals (with measurable objectives and tasks)
◦ One Short-term
◦ One Long-term
• Units of Attention
◦ What should be the focus of change? Person and/or environment? A “person-in-environment” ecosystems perspective encourages the worker to consider
all relevant dimensions of the case, including the degree of fit (or lack of fit) between the people and their environments (micro, mezzo, macro).
• Possible obstacles and tentative approach to obstacles
Sample Solution
