Communication is critical in the mental health field, anyone from an LCSW to an MD to a nurse should be able to read and understand anything you write regarding a patient. “Good communication skills are essential to any form of social work practice, from therapeutic interventions to the most mundane bureaucratic activities” (Koprowska, 2014). Whether you are conducting an assessment, dealing with a complex family issue, or having a meeting with your field instructor, you need to be able to communicate well. As an assessor I am the first line of defense and I make the judgment calls regarding patients mental capacity, I decide whether they can contract for safety or they need to be referred to another agency both aspects require a lot of communication this way the patient along with the other agency can have a clear understanding about what is happening.
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At AHS, we have translators who can communicate with patients either by phone or in person to ensure language is not a barrier in any way. AHS provides much professional developmental ongoing training for employees on how to regulate and manage personal emotions, which demonstrates the value of communication over personal issues. AHS also has a majority of an assessment laid out to where the assessor only needs to answer direct questions about a patient in order to consolidate the communication between the assessor and the multiple other health professionals reading the
At AHS, we have translators who can communicate with patients either by phone or in person to ensure language is not a barrier in any way. AHS provides much professional developmental ongoing training for employees on how to regulate and manage personal emotions, which demonstrates the value of communication over personal issues. AHS also has a majority of an assessment laid out to where the assessor only needs to answer direct questions about a patient in order to consolidate the communication between the assessor and the multiple other health professionals reading the