Select two wellness inventories or emotional assessment tools that mental health professionals
select two wellness inventories or emotional assessment tools that mental health professionals may use to determine wellness or emotional well-being. Be sure to address the following:
- How does wellness and emotional well-being impact the body, mind, and spirit of an individual?
- What are the basic features of each assessment tool you are analyzing?
- What are the similarities and differences between these assessments? In other words, what are their benefits and limitations?
- How is information from these assessments used to inform the treatment process?
- What might cause a mental health professional to select one over the other in different contexts?
Emotion is a topic that has often been overlooked in mental health research. Although emotional processes play a role in many of the most common forms of emotional distress, emotional experiences are difficult to study because emotional processes cannot be observed directly and emotional states are subjective and ambiguous. As a result, emotional assessment tools have not been as extensively tested or used as other forms of assessment.
Emotional assessments can be divided into three broad categories based on the type of tool: self-report questionnaires, interviews, and physiological indicators. The main advantage to using physiological indicators is their objectivity; however, it is more difficult for them to provide specific information about emotional processes than questionnaires or interviews can provide (i.e., physiological indicators tend to say only