Medicaid Documentation Guidelines for Rehabilitative Services: Assessment

Module Four

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• Introduction*
• Diagnostic Assessment*
• Crisis Assessment *
• Functional Assessment*
• Interpretive Summary*
• Challenge*

Assessments and Recovery-orientation

Strong assessments incorporate the person’s:

• perspective
• preferences
• wants
• goals

They are not processes that are done to persons, but processes that are done with persons.

Strong assessments promote personal engagement in services.

Assessments begin the process of recovery by clearly indicating that :

1. The staff believes that the person can get better and
2. The staff is professionally committed to the process.