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	Social Functioning Assessment	Social Support Assessment
Campo	Social Work	Social Work
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1976	1988
Ideatore	Social-adjustment measurement tradition; self-report scale by Weissman & Bothwell	Multiple traditions; perceived-support scale by Zimet et al., buffering theory by Cohen & Wills
Tipo	Assessment of a person's performance across major social roles and life domains	Assessment of the structure, function, and perceived adequacy of a client's social support
Fonte seminale	Weissman, M. M., & Bothwell, S. (1976). Assessment of social adjustment by patient self-report. Archives of General Psychiatry, 33(9), 1111–1115.	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.
Alias	Social Functioning Measurement, Role Functioning Assessment, Psychosocial Functioning Assessment, Social Adjustment Assessment	Social Support Measurement, Perceived Social Support Assessment, Social Support Network Assessment, Social Support Inventory
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	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.	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.