Title: The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA) – Praed Foundation
Headings: THE ADULT NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT (ANSA)
THE ADULT NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT (ANSA)
WHAT IS ANSA?
RESEARCH

Content: 1.Centerpiece strength
2. Strength that you can use in planning
3. Identified-strength-must be built
4. No strength identified
The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA) is a multi-purpose tool developed for adult’s behavioral health services to support decision making, including level of care and service planning, to facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and to allow for the monitoring of outcomes of services. The ANSA is currently used in a number of states and Canada in applications hospitals, emergency departments, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, and ACT programs. The CANS was developed from a communication perspective so as to facilitate the linkage between the assessment process and the design of individualized service plans including the application of evidence-based practices. The ANSA was developed from a communication perspective so as to facilitate the linkage between the assessment process and the design of individualized service plans including the application of evidence-based practices. The original version, the Severity of Psychiatric Illness (SPI), was created in the 1990’s to study decision-making in psychiatric emergency systems. The ANSA expands on the concepts of the SPI to include a broader description of functioning and include strengths with a recovery focus. The ANSA is easy to learn and is well liked by recipients, family members, providers and other partners in the services system because it is easy to understand and does not necessarily require scoring in order to be meaningful to an individual and his/her family.