Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (ASI)
PSYU 511 Mental Health and Substance Use Assessments: the DHSI and the ASI
The Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (DSHI)
The rising prevalence of reports of individuals who have self-harmed, and the lack of an agreed-upon definition of what constitutes self-harm, led to the creation of the DHSI, or the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (Gratz, n.d.). The inventory does not include suicide attempts. drug usage, ingestion of objects and/or substances, or risky behaviors such as reckless driving. What this inventory considers self-harm is operationally defined as “the deliberate, direct destruction or alteration of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent, but resulting in injury severe enough for tissue damage (e.g., scarring) to occur” (Gratz, …show more content…
This data provides basic diagnostic information in relation to the client before, during, and after treatment for substance use issues, and as a way to assess change in client status and treatment outcome (Grissom & Bragg, 1991); provides data on recent and lifetime problems in the seven areas, and provides an overview of substance use issues, rather than focusing on any single area in the client’s life (Allen, et al., 2003). Although it has been used with the mentally ill, pregnant, prisoner, gambler, and homeless populations its main use is for adults in substance use treatment …show more content…
Limitations of the ASI are that it drops in reliability when administered beyond the face-to-face method, the ASI-MV assumes that the respondent has a predetermined reading comprehension level, the wording around having issues in families is vague and alludes to it not being normal to have family conflicts, and it has poor use with older populations of addicts who have cognitive impairments (Allen, et al.,
The Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (DSHI)
The rising prevalence of reports of individuals who have self-harmed, and the lack of an agreed-upon definition of what constitutes self-harm, led to the creation of the DHSI, or the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (Gratz, n.d.). The inventory does not include suicide attempts. drug usage, ingestion of objects and/or substances, or risky behaviors such as reckless driving. What this inventory considers self-harm is operationally defined as “the deliberate, direct destruction or alteration of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent, but resulting in injury severe enough for tissue damage (e.g., scarring) to occur” (Gratz, …show more content…
This data provides basic diagnostic information in relation to the client before, during, and after treatment for substance use issues, and as a way to assess change in client status and treatment outcome (Grissom & Bragg, 1991); provides data on recent and lifetime problems in the seven areas, and provides an overview of substance use issues, rather than focusing on any single area in the client’s life (Allen, et al., 2003). Although it has been used with the mentally ill, pregnant, prisoner, gambler, and homeless populations its main use is for adults in substance use treatment …show more content…
Limitations of the ASI are that it drops in reliability when administered beyond the face-to-face method, the ASI-MV assumes that the respondent has a predetermined reading comprehension level, the wording around having issues in families is vague and alludes to it not being normal to have family conflicts, and it has poor use with older populations of addicts who have cognitive impairments (Allen, et al.,