Intake and Assessment Helping Skills Manual

Explaining a process to someone else can enhance your own understanding. In this assignment, you will gain a better understanding of the helping skills necessary to facilitate the intake and assessment procedures.

Imagine you are training a new human service worker on the intake and assessment process at a correctional facility. You must outline the elements of intake interviewing and explain the skills that it will take to facilitate the assessment process with clients.

Create a 700- to 1,050-word manual for your trainee, in which you:

• Describe the purpose of the intake interview.
• Explain the elements involved in intake interviewing.
• Describe the assessment process.
• Describe the skills needed to facilitate the assessment process.

Include a minimum of 2 sources.

Format any citations within your manual according to APA guidelines.