The Adult Needs And Strengths Assessment (ANSA)
The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment: (ANSA, 1999)
The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA) is a comprehensive tool for the assessment of psychological and social factors that play a role in treatment planning (103). It is a clinician rated assessment which was developed under the Buddin Praed Foundation, Ottawa, Canada. It has 6 major domains, each of which has multiple sub domains. The six major domains are, ‘Life Domain Functioning’, ‘Acculturation’, ‘Strengths’, ‘Behavioural Health Needs’, ‘Risk behaviours’ and ‘Caregiver Strengths and Needs’.
As is evident from the names of the domains, the ANSA is not strictly a strengths based instrument. However, it has one domain dedicated to strengths of the individual and therefore is …show more content…
Thus lower the score, higher are the strengths. This is unlike the usual scoring pattern. However, the ANSA manual specifies that even though each of the dimensions has a numerical ranking, the ANSA is meant to give a profile of the needs and strengths of a mental health patient. Thus, it is assumed that the scores are not meant to be added to get a final score at the end of each main domain. The dimension ratings help the clinician understand which strength is significant and can be put to use and which strength needs to be …show more content…
Developed in the year 1999 by Wallace, Lecomte and Liberman (105) in the United States of America, this measure was designed to be embedded in the process of treatment or rehabilitation of persons with SPMI, unlike other outcome measures that were administered only at the beginning and end of the intervention process. Two parallel versions of the scale were designed, one for the client’s self-report and the other for the informant. It is administered as a structured interview with 7 domains. For the purpose of clarity, the seven domains and their sub domains are listed
The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA) is a comprehensive tool for the assessment of psychological and social factors that play a role in treatment planning (103). It is a clinician rated assessment which was developed under the Buddin Praed Foundation, Ottawa, Canada. It has 6 major domains, each of which has multiple sub domains. The six major domains are, ‘Life Domain Functioning’, ‘Acculturation’, ‘Strengths’, ‘Behavioural Health Needs’, ‘Risk behaviours’ and ‘Caregiver Strengths and Needs’.
As is evident from the names of the domains, the ANSA is not strictly a strengths based instrument. However, it has one domain dedicated to strengths of the individual and therefore is …show more content…
Thus lower the score, higher are the strengths. This is unlike the usual scoring pattern. However, the ANSA manual specifies that even though each of the dimensions has a numerical ranking, the ANSA is meant to give a profile of the needs and strengths of a mental health patient. Thus, it is assumed that the scores are not meant to be added to get a final score at the end of each main domain. The dimension ratings help the clinician understand which strength is significant and can be put to use and which strength needs to be …show more content…
Developed in the year 1999 by Wallace, Lecomte and Liberman (105) in the United States of America, this measure was designed to be embedded in the process of treatment or rehabilitation of persons with SPMI, unlike other outcome measures that were administered only at the beginning and end of the intervention process. Two parallel versions of the scale were designed, one for the client’s self-report and the other for the informant. It is administered as a structured interview with 7 domains. For the purpose of clarity, the seven domains and their sub domains are listed