In social work, this form provides a serious responsibility for the professional staff, which enables the respondents to respond to the needs of the client and to make decisions in a specific systematic way to improve the situation of the client. However, many professionals who are not aware of this responsibility or have not yet reached this consciousness can operate in the field and lead to wrong practices. For this reason, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services published the Social Review Outline in order to provide a certain standardization. Through this outline, professional staff will pay attention to what features they should prioritize in the reports they will write about, what is important and which elements should be stated.
Writing and Professional Language;
The information obtained from the interviews, file information, reports, petitions, observations written before are used. The date, number and content of the file, interview, petition or report must be clearly stated when transmitting this information.
he language of the report should be in the form of an official written language. For example; Person F has applied to our institution with his petition no 123456 dated 12.12.2018. As a result of the house visit on 14.12.2018 and the interviews held at the institution, the person stated that he wanted to give named Y who was born on 10.11.2017 and had difficulty in taking care of the child.
The sentence can also be written as follows; … it has been stated / stated that he / she has difficulty dealing with the child's care.
Social Review Report Outlines
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General Introduction
If there are reports written in advance, the date of the reports, the name and title of the professional who wrote the report, the number of the report, and the statements about the previous situation are given. If the application is made with the petition, the reason, number and date of the petition will be stated and information about the individual and the beneficiaries will be provided.
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Family: Physical characteristics (physical information can be given if detailed. For example, wheelchair-using physically disabled grandmother, but the statements that cause discrimination should be avoided), A general impression of the speech styles and short biography of the family members (eg, places of birth, dates, how many siblings they are, the parents' short information about their family).
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Individual to Benefit From Service: Physical characteristics (Is there any obstacle situation? Which is the case according to his peers?), Forms of speech (whether fluent, fast or slow? So you should look at how he expresses himself.), External appearance (Excited? How does the outfit show the minimum standards of the clothes? Etc.), short biography of the person (for what reasons did he come to the institution / organization? Who transferred it? Which aids have he received before? Etc.)
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Personality Characteristics
The point that should be considered here is that an social worker who has not received psychological training should not make “psychological diagnoses“ expressions. For example; Instead of using clear expressions such as “A person is a schizophrenic because he sees delusions”, it is necessary to include expressions and observations that “person A sees delusions, and that it is appropriate to be directed to a psychiatrist for this”.
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Family: observed personality traits of the family. Is he anxious, aggressive, or happy? How do you communicate with your family and your children?
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b. Who will benefit from the service: How is the relationship with friends, family, environment? What kind of personality pattern does he have (avoidant, aggressive, unresponsive, etc.) How to express himself?
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Business Status
Information should be provided on the job of the mother, father, siblings, and the individual working for the service beneficiary.
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Economic Situation
This section includes information about whether the family has a regular income, the total income of the family, and whether the income can meet the family needs.
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Education Status
The level of education of the family members, the ones who continue their education and the statements about the current institution and the number of the students are included. If there is no one who does not continue his / her education, he / she is given information about whether or not there is an individual benefiting from special education.
Information about whether the person who will benefit from the service, educational status, the number of students in the classroom, the success of the school, whether there is a need for special education, whether it is going to school or not.
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Health Status
Information is given about the health status of the individual, the family and the caregiver (attention is paid to situations such as illness, dependency, surgery, accidents that may adversely affect health. It is tried to obtain information such as health tools and drugs). In addition to the health services used previously, information about the health reports is transferred from the file information. However, the report should be written by including statements such as date, number and report issuer.
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Criminal Status
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Family: Family members' information on past and present criminal cases is written. In addition, the file scanning information is written in order to include the expressions mentioned in the previous reports.
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Individual who will benefit from the Service: If there is a criminal record, both the information obtained from the interview with the person and the social environment of the person to get information about the incident, the effect of the crime on the family life, how the event is evaluated by the person is acquainted. If one of the family members is a criminal, observations are made on how the beneficiary evaluates this situation.
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Family And Social Life
The history of marriage, the structure of the family and the changes it has undergone, relations between the family members, family roles and family rules, how the family members react in any situation, the information about the parents of their parents, the family social environment (relatives, neighbors, friends) ) the relationship between the family members and their relationship with family members.
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Housing Status
The property of the house (apartment, detached, shanty, etc.), whom it belongs to, the rent amount of the house, the physical characteristics of the house, the socio-economic situation of the environment, the state of the goods in the house (in the case of minimum living standards?), The number of rooms, the house observations are made about what is heated, what is the suitability of the house for hygiene and health.
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Evaluation And Conclusion
The information obtained about the individual and the family benefiting from the service and the general examination of the application as a result of the examination of the social worker intervention to be applied by the professional staff, information on which law or regulation is based, if there is guidance to another institution, the reasons and propositions are given. The important point here is to avoid the decisions that would compromise the well-being of the client. For example, to improperly interfere with a person who is expected to benefit from the service with a suspicion of abuse.
The conclusion of the conclusion can be stated as follows; “… On the basis of their justification….”
