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Personal intervention may happen in an instance unlike organizational intervention that may happen for a month, six month, 1 year or 5 years. Therefore, what is long term for a personal intervention may be a short term for organizational intervention. The scale of time for evaluation of personal intervention is punctuated at the time the value of services has been created and shared, or failed to be generated or shared. It may happen too soon or at a much longer time. One should note that evaluation is not to be taken from the perspective of the self. The intervention is always evaluated from the perspective of the one receiving the services as the latter is the one whose needs have to be met by your intervention. It is therefore important that the intervention produced the kind of help and assistance that the recipient is in need of. Detaching yourself from the point of view of the recipient is a primary consideration for evaluation. It is to prevent you from clouding the of judgment of the recipient. Organizations have a way of extracting the judgment from what they do like conducting market research and performance evaluation. For an individual, employing activities such as these maybe helpful but counterproductive since – again – “intervention” may happen in succession and these formal tools may lend inapplicability to the situation. Just to make it clear, successive intervention is depicted in this situation --- just when you have completed solving out the issue of one staff, another staff comes in to share concern about a fellow staff, then, a family member calls out for help, and, you would just feel like distancing yourself away from what is happening in the office and the family member. You will know when value has been delivered, created and shared by the recipient of your intervention. First, you could very well observe if the well being of the individual has improved or not. Second, your will hear a feedback – good or bad. This feedback will give you an idea whether to reinforce or stop further assistance. But at the minimum, at the personal level, these are the important points to know that you have attained the minimum competencies for evaluating Number 1, Responsively, This happens when you act on things that you are competent or knowledgeable to handle and Number 2, Responsibly, When after determining that you can intervene or not, you are able to call in other competent individuals to provide assistance on areas that you are not qualified to do. Then, you and these assisting individuals delivered the needed services also, Number 3, Effectively While observing your boundaries, communication, and extent of services, the recipient of assistance recognized at the very least what is happening to him or her; and, at most, could take appropriate and consistent action in addressing his or her needs Lastly Number 4, with full accountability You could keep track of and are ready to be answerable for the favorable and unfavorable consequences of your decision for intervention without throwing any blame to others for the action and decisions you took. Accountability includes most importantly how your action and decision has strengthened or weakened your intrapersonal or interpersonal relationship (or your relationship with yourself and others, respectively) as well as the interrelation of people in the family, community or organizations. Note that the value created by your intervention enlarges when shared as to cause benefits to spin off to others as well. The congressional lecture ends on this note! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors in mental health.