Select someone you know personally, and write as much as you can about the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of the person’s life. Is it difficult to distinguish between any of these four aspects of functioning? Are any of the four aspects easier to document? If so, why?
What will be an ideal response?
The following outline may be used for this assignment:
• Client name, age, gender, occupation, source of income
• Living arrangement
Biological functioning
• Bodily health
• Presence of chronic or serious health conditions
• Any evidence of impairments in cognitive functions
• Intellectual development
• Orientation to physical health activities
Psychological functioning
• Self-esteem or self-confidence
• Judgment
• Goal-setting behavior
• Interpersonal relationships
• Ability to regulate thoughts (are behaviors goal focused?)
• Ability to manage stress
• The person’s life cycle stage
• Significant events in the client’s life cycle, and how have these events affected the person’s functioning
• Personal strengths
• Personal limitations
Social functioning
• Family composition
• Family relationships, their strength, and their impact on client functioning
• Communication patterns of the family
• The family’s emotional climate: Are interactions volatile or low-key? Are members overly responsive, non-responsive, disinterested?
• Any significant extended family relationships that affect the client’s functioning
• Environmental/survival factors in the client’s life
• Positive factors that enhance the client’s functioning and any negative factors that are perceived as constraints
• Cultural, racial, ethnic, class, and gender factors that may affect the client’s life style, positively and negatively
Spiritual functioning
• Spiritual (religious or meaning-in-life) beliefs
• Spiritual practices
• Ultimate personal values
• Ways in which spirituality is incorporated into the person’s everyday life
• Sense of purpose
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