Evaluation and Termination Evaluation is used within a case to assess the interventions and their impact on the client (Interventions, 2018). With collaboration from the program coordinator, Mr. Smith’s volunteer guardian, and the student intern, a Service Plan Outcome Checklist was devised was a way to evaluate change. The checklist included restoring Mr. Smith’s physical and psychological health and finding Mr. Smith long-term housing. The overall outcome of Mr. Smith’s involuntary commitment is that his psychological functioning has been restored to his baseline, but to retain this level of functioning he remains dependent on institutional living. Reviewing the DSM-5 to understand Mr. Smith’s mental illness diagnosis and researching the mental health resources within the community were …show more content…
Social work is built upon the core values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence (National Association of Social Workers, 2017). There are some instances when the intervention necessary might conflict with social work values. For example, social work promotes self-determination and autonomy of the client, but involuntary commitment takes that away. In this case, involuntary commitment was justifiable because it was believed that Mr. Smith posed as a danger to himself and without treatment his health would deteriorate. A study conducted on the ethicality of involuntary commitment found that, “Autonomy was sometimes held as a reason for involuntary treatment in order to promote autonomy or facilitate autonomous decision-making” (Sjöstrand et al., 2015, p. 10). Field supervision related to this case was mostly centered on the discussion of self-determination and trying to formulate the least-restrictive environment available for treatment. There were no issues related to personal values that arose in this