Assessment of Indian Families: Social Services

Assessment's of Indian Families When doing an assessment of a Native American family, the social worker needs to understand four quadrants of the Indian family. The focus of this paper is to introduce the four quadrants, define them, and explain the Indian Child Welfare Act. The four quadrants are context, mental, physical, and spiritual. Legally, Native American families and child welfare have to be approached differently than other families. As a social worker, it is …

…cause controversy in the legal system because the decisions of the tribal counsel may not always be the correct intervention for the child. In the profession of Social Work, workers must be intensely educated in different cultural backgrounds of children. In any variety of the field one will be faced with different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and cultural differences. After reading this paper, I hope making assessments of Native American children may be more easily performed.