Assessing parental capacity to change: The missing jigsaw piece in the assessment of a child's welfare?
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- 作者：Dendy Platt ; Dendy.Platt@bristol.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Katie Riches kr14922@bristol.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Child welfare ; Child maltreatment ; Assessment ; Capacity to change ; Parent ; Behaviour change ; Risk
- 刊名：Children and Youth Services Review
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：61
- 期：Complete
- 页码：141-148
- 全文大小：421 K
文摘
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Assessing parental capacity to change is an important part of social work assessments of children and families.
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There has been limited development of practice methodologies for assessing capacity to change.
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The authors present a two-part approach to assessing capacity to change.
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One part of the approach is the assessment of barriers to and facilitators of change.
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The other part draws on goal attainment scaling to test parents’ abilities to change (Harnett, 2007).
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Applying both parts ensures an opportunity to change is combined with an understanding of the potential for change.