Respose Planning a Needs Assessment

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Needs Assessment Plan

A needs assessment is the process of establishing and addressing the breaches between the

existing circumstances and the future desires or needs. It involves adequately examining the

discrepancy between the present situation and the future conditions to efficiently determine the

need. The plan lays bare the detailed proposal for achieving a successful needs assessment.

Potential Program

Tutty & Rothery (2010) posits that Needs Assessments usually focus on the needs that limit the

normal functioning of individuals in essential areas of their lives. The organization right for this

task is Crest View Recovery Center, located in Asheville, North Carolina. Crest View Recovery

Centre is a rehabilitation organization that offers guidance in the path towards sobriety. It

focuses on rehabilitating individuals suffering from substance addiction and those who are

partially mentally affected. The organization offers different treatment programs, therapies, and

post-treatment services to the affected persons. However, the specific program of focus is the

Self-Management and Recovery Technology (SMART). SMART refers to an intervention that

has an essential function that aids the recovery in people with psychotic disorders, for instance,

schizoaffective disorder. The recovery technology employs appropriate psychological principles

that incorporate several approaches, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, as stated by Kelly et

al. (2017). Majorly SMART covers unmet needs because there are several cases of substance

addiction in American society and inadequate post-treatment to the affected individuals.

The Unmet Need and the Supporting Information of Warranty

A needs assessment is essential for the affected persons and the interventions required to run the

program and achieve an effective and successful long-term post-treatment. The best fit

individuals are located through referrals. The referrals come from healthcare practitioners and

review of society case list. Additionally, the Crest View Recovery Center advertises its services

through print media and social media (Beck et al., 2017). In the recent past, qualitative research

was carried out to establish the advantages and disadvantages of using SMART in major

substance addiction rehabilitation centers. SMART therapy is a randomized controlled

superiority trial among two groups using an allocation ratio of 1:1, according to Beck et al.

(2017). The two cohorts receive eight intervention sessions, with the first group getting their

recovery intervention from a mental health worker, and the second group is put through a

befriending intervention as a rationale to the first group. All these happen in a three-month

window while the patients are still subjected to the usual routine care. A needs assessment

identifies the barriers within the rehabilitation centers in receiving the desired treatment,

especially when it comes to post-treatment.

Sources of Information for the Needs Assessment and the Potential Informants

Obtaining information for the Needs Assessment would involve conducting interviews,

observing the daily services, organizing the public forum, and administrating questionnaires. In

the case of need assessment, one major source of information will be the clients receiving the

psychosocial needs at the recovery center. The clients here are aware of their needs and if the

treatment is primary in their path to sobriety. Moreover, the caregivers, such as clinicians who

offer the therapy to the addicts, act as an information source because they offer the treatment

services and, therefore, are better positioned to understand the client’s needs in their journey

towards recovery. Both the clients and the caregivers serve as valuable sources.

Obtaining Credible and Unbiased Information

In obtaining credible information in the Needs Assessment, the participants are significant to the

program’s success. The steps include setting search considerations, accessing the relevant

websites, organizing the selected information, examining the information obtained, and then

providing a report of the selected information, according to Dudley (2020). Through using these

steps, the information obtained regarding the Needs Assessment would be credible and

satisfactory. References

Beck, A. K., Forbes, E., Baker, A. L., Kelly, P. J., Deane, F. P., Shakeshaft, A., ... & Kelly, J. F.

(2017). Systematic Review of SMART Recovery: outcomes, process variables, and

implications for research. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31(1), 1.

Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do. Oxford University

Press, USA.

Kelly, P. J., Raftery, D., Deane, F. P., Baker, A. L., Hunt, D., & Shakeshaft, A. (2017). From

both sides: Participant and facilitator perceptions of SMART Recovery groups. Drug

and alcohol review, 36(3), 325-332.

Tutty, L. & Rothery, M. (2010). Needs assessments. In The handbook of social work research

methods (pp. 149-162). SAGE Publications, Inc.,

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