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| Social Support Assessment× | Rapid Assessment Instrument× | |
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| Field | Social Work | Social Work |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1988 | 2002 |
| Originator≠ | Multiple traditions; perceived-support scale by Zimet et al., buffering theory by Cohen & Wills | Walter W. Hudson and the clinical-measurement tradition; codified by Springer, Abell & Hudson |
| Type≠ | Assessment of the structure, function, and perceived adequacy of a client's social support | Brief, standardized, self-report measure for repeated use in practice |
| Seminal source≠ | Zimet, G. D., Dahlem, N. W., Zimet, S. G., & Farley, G. K. (1988). The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Journal of Personality Assessment, 52(1), 30–41. DOI ↗ | Springer, D. W., Abell, N., & Hudson, W. W. (2002). Creating and validating rapid assessment instruments for practice and research: Part 1. Research on Social Work Practice, 12(3), 408–439. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Social Support Measurement, Perceived Social Support Assessment, Social Support Network Assessment, Social Support Inventory | RAI, Rapid Assessment Instruments, Brief Standardized Self-Report Scale, Clinical Measurement Package Scales |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Social support assessment is the systematic appraisal of the people and resources a client can draw on, the kinds of support they provide, and how adequate that support feels relative to the client's needs. Drawing on the structural-functional theory of support and on validated instruments such as the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, it gives social workers a structured way to map who is in a client's network, what emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal support those ties offer, and where gaps leave the client vulnerable — information that is central to strengths-based intervention and care planning. | A rapid assessment instrument (RAI) is a short, standardized, self-report measure designed to be completed quickly and repeatedly so that a social worker can assess the magnitude of a client's problem, compare it against a validated clinical cutoff, and monitor change over the course of an intervention. The format was championed by Walter Hudson, whose Clinical Measurement Package scales set the template, and was systematized for practitioners by Springer, Abell, and Hudson, who laid out how to create and validate such instruments for practice and research. |
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