Assess Needs Of Clients With Alcohol And Other Drugs Issues - CHCAOD004

Assess Needs Of Clients With
Alcohol And Other Drugs
Issues

Table of Content.
Table of Content............................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
ASSEMENT 1.................................................................................................................................1
Assessment 2...................................................................................................................................8
Assessment 3.................................................................................................................................18

MAIN BODY
ASSEMENT 1
Question 1.1
1. While assessing the information client needs will be identified in proper mode. Existing
information of the client is used to interpret the history of client, their dependency of
drug. Client emotional or physical state and their mental regime. Source of information is
criminal records, their physical assessment or data gather from client family.
2. To provide the client evidence-based approach for the management, there is need to
proceed the client info in the ethical manner. This must include to threat all client without
discrimination irrespective of their gender, religion or belief they follow. This symbolise
as consent of client and family should be taken before viewing past report.
3. Two primary need of the patient is having the security of care from the provider and
accurate identification of the trouble they are facing. To counter it, they can communicate
to AOD specialist will guide patient about harm minimise actions and counsellor will
motive the patient to incorporate it.
Question 1.2
1. When the individual s facing the major life adulteration which include either death of
loved one or a stress in relationship. One might experience any sever accident or the
physical abuse and there is development of the ambitious behaviour which individual is
not able to control.
2. Mandate treatment not only include the care therapy to the patient but it also includes
having the voluntary control over the client actions in order to improve the therapeutic
relationship. Here the provider aim is to provide effective empowering to client to ensure
their demands are fulfil.
3. While evaluating the cause of effort with the client, provider will able to reduce the
impact of illness in client health and the positive approaches which will help them to
challenge the affect they are going through. Reason for help is mental trauma or past
experience. To seek help client can contact to AOD specialist, physician or family.
Question 1.3
1. Information provided by the patient are need to be kept confidentially to ensure that legal
and ethical approaches the clinician is using. This information will help the clinician to
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build the trust relationship with patient and their family members. As it will help clinician
to provide better healing action by ensuring that people feel safe.
2. Expectation during the client confidentially includes the information provided are been
passed to others for the providing better care to patient as advice is taken. Other than
reporting the information to safeguards the client form the social or ethical misconduct or
discrimination but client consent is required.
3. The information of the client is shared after taking their confidential as to regulate their
respect of the patient decision when they don't want it to accelerate it to others. Only
when clinicians find that sharing information must affect the patient health, then they can
addressed the condition to others which is the mandatory reporting.
Question 1.4
1. While providing the assessment to the client it is important for the provider to first built
the trust full relationship with the client as to ensure them the effective approaches are
provided to improve the health. Client must be informed with the techniques they have
been ongoing with and the instance at which its impact will be ocular in health.
2. Screening and the assessing tools are used here in the organization to identify the AOD
use by the clients, the harm it has cause in body functioning and the associated risk which
are need to be managed. It also include the data of patient past history and the cause of
dependency.
3. To identify the patient understanding the, their body language is asses and the feedback is
taken about the measure they think can be done. Other than clinician can ask them to
repeat the instruction provided.
Question 2.1
1. While analysing the person history, it is important to identify the family history of
addiction that the person has gone through with, peer pressure that person is going
through and the reason behind it. It must include the analysis of family involvement and
the belief they follow. To analyse the pattern of drug use includes the the frequency from
which the consumptions is going on while communicating with the person. Through
analysing frequency dependency and magnitude of consumption is collected.
2. Question includes:
- Different changes they can interpret before consumption of drugs and now.
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- How is their mental and physical power.
- Reason they have been started the consumption of the drugs.
- Culture they follow and and magnitude of frequency consumption of drug.
- Allergic reaction they have or witnessing recently.
- History of drug they have been using.
Question 2.2
1. Coexisting issue that the client must have gone through might accelerate the chance of
reversion of dependency in patient or the aggravate which might alter the treatment
effect. Patient might have gone through with either disability, mental illness or legal
troubles. Disability interfere client cognition of self care as they might carry through with
various impairment and mental illness lowers the patient self esteem or cause the panic
attacks.
2. While providing care to the patient who might self injure themselves, counsellor must be
assign to them. These sessions are designed to analyse trigger point of patient as to
provide the management techniques when the risk elevates back again. Their must be
review of patient family history, trauma or mental health troubles they are going through.
The factors like employment or family insecurity which might be the cause of physical or
mental abuse is need to be analysed. Clinician should provide the encouragement actions.
Question 2.3
1. Healthy family relationship alleviate the faster recovery of individual from the recovery.
This might be disrupted when the substance addiction arises which result in prevention of
new relation or broke out the old one. This inattention from family result in more
defensive behaviour or conflicts in the family.
2. Social relationship due to abuse lead to affective spacing from family which outcome is
seen through the emotional abuse or isolation individual face. To deal with these troubles
one accelerates their consumption which can breakdown the individual fully. Individual
make distance and pickoff stealing or buying illegal drugs. ]
3. To identify the relationship status the effective communication sessions are kept with the
client and their family. It is done by evaluating the perceptive of each other in accurate
manner. The extent of it is interpret by assess frequency of loyalty.
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Question 2.4
1. Roizens 4L model is used to convert the individuals from pre contemplation phase where
one is not able to analyse the trouble they are facing in their own behaviour to the
contemplation stage. In this stage people get alert for issue they are facing. They need to
forthcoming help to resolve it.
2. These tools are used by by the clinicians to interpret the action which might affect the
patient care. Its consumption is done according to the client needs or purpose for which
identification is need to be done. It is done to analyse frequency of AOD dependency and
legal or financial state.
3. Question for screening must include the magnitude of alcohol one takes on daily basis
and the assessment is need to be done if consumption is for more than 2 units. What is the
post and pre affect of consumption.
Question 2.5
1. Collaboration with other professionals are required to fulfil patient needs and care in
accurate manner. Other professionals might include the psychologist to access mental
health and counsellor to access the occurrence patient is going through. It also includes
dietician for healthy regime will reduce the upcoming liver or cognitive illness and home
nursing staff.
Question 2.6
1. It has been found that young generation is major vulnerable unit which easily attracts
towards the drug or alcohol dependency when they experience troubles. The cause of
these peers are either the academic pressure they are getting from family or breakdown of
any relationship. Weal support might trigger them for consumption.
2. Triggers for the young generation are either the lack of emotional or physical support or
the academic pressure they are getting from, it can be reduced by providing them
motivational or behavioural therapy. Middle age people triggers are primarily the
employment troubles, relationship breakdown traumas or death of any loved one. These
when not control might develop disability or associated disorder.
3. Challenges is due to their altered belief execution there is communication objection
which is need to cover by having collaboration with ethno-speicific services. It involves
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