Roles of assessment in accountability of the counseling profession
Assessment act as an essential role in the entire counseling relationship. It starts from the moment the counselor meets the client to the end; this helps them sought important information about the client, we have in place four primary purposes in the counseling process, and this is screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, and goal identification.
Screening assessment helps to realize whether there is a problem or not, it also acts a beneficial part in preventive medicine, at this stage, it helps identify patients early enough for treatment thus escaping other symptoms or consequences that may after that occur,
Diagnosis assessment is also an essential aspect, in that it helps identify the illness by looking keenly into the symptoms of the patient. Testing is also a crucial tool at this stage; this, therefore, improves patient care and helps reduce healthcare expenditure by sorting solutions to problems earlier and accurately developing treatment plans to the client. Diagnosis assessment also helps the counselor know when to refer to other professions in the medical field.
Treatment planning assessment entails documents that allow heath care Practitioner and their client to monitor their therapy. They include families of the patient, practical planning assessment entails; demographic, presenting concerns, treatment contract, strengths, progress, and outcome, and many others had. This planning is essential as it provides how service may better be delivered and no harm caused in the process. Treatment planning assessment also reduces the risk of fraud, abuses to professionals.
Goal identification assessment plays its role, too, since professionals seek to improve the fairness in financial contribution to the population, also improve on the health of the people and finally add value to the health system. In conclusion, the assessment act in accountability of profession provides hope even for more improvement and best service delivery to clients in the health sectors in the future.