Methoden vergleichen

	Social Functioning Assessment	Standardized Clinical Cutoff
Fachgebiet	Social Work	Social Work
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1976	1991
Urheber	Social-adjustment measurement tradition; self-report scale by Weissman & Bothwell	Neil S. Jacobson & Paula Truax
Typ	Assessment of a person's performance across major social roles and life domains	Method for judging whether individual change on a standardized measure is reliable and clinically meaningful
Wegweisende Quelle	Weissman, M. M., & Bothwell, S. (1976). Assessment of social adjustment by patient self-report. Archives of General Psychiatry, 33(9), 1111–1115.	Jacobson, N. S., & Truax, P. (1991). Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59(1), 12–19.
Aliasnamen	Social Functioning Measurement, Role Functioning Assessment, Psychosocial Functioning Assessment, Social Adjustment Assessment	Clinical Cutoff Score, Clinical Significance Method, Reliable Change Index, Jacobson-Truax Method
Verwandt	4	3
Zusammenfassung	Social functioning assessment evaluates how well a person performs the major social roles of everyday life — work or school, family and parenting, intimate and social relationships, and economic and community participation — and how satisfied they are with that performance. Building on the social-adjustment measurement tradition and instruments such as Weissman and Bothwell's Social Adjustment Scale, it gives social workers a structured, quantifiable account of psychosocial functioning that goes beyond symptoms to capture the person-in-environment outcomes at the heart of social work.	The standardized clinical cutoff approach, developed by Jacobson and Truax, judges whether an individual client's change on a standardized measure is both statistically reliable and clinically meaningful. It pairs a Reliable Change Index — which asks whether a pre-to-post change is larger than the measurement error of the instrument — with a cutoff score that marks the boundary between the dysfunctional and functional (normal) populations. A client who moves reliably across that cutoff is counted as recovered, giving practice and research a defensible, individual-level definition of meaningful improvement.