This is a tool used by Mental Health workers to assess a patients level of functioning.. current levels as well as future functioning based on diagnosis and predicted outcomes.
The assessment of client functioning is a critical component of both treatment outcome evaluation and assessment of individual level of need for individual treatment planning and service delivery selection.
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Marguerite141: GAF is also one of the 5 items you use to make a psychological diagnose according to the diagnostic and Statistic manual psychologists and psychiatrist use called DSM-IVr. The score is based upon a description included in the book and it helps the therapist know how the person is functioning in life and how much is the problem affecting them. It includes social, working and emotional aspects. The score range goes from 0 (almost impossible) to 100 (too perfect, he wouldn´t be a patient)
