Deciding children's futures : an expert guide to assessments for safeguarding and promoting children's welfare in family court / Joyce Scaife.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scaife, Joyce, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare.

Public welfare.

Social work with children.

Domestic relations courts.

Physical Description:

xvi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

This book addresses the thorny task of how to assess parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Interviewing

Assessment of personality, profile and relationship context

Special issues in the assessment of adults

Assessment of parenting

Assessment of children and young people

Assessment of attachment

Risk, safety, protective factors, and needs assessment

Placement, residence, and contact arrangements

Theoretical considerations, data synthesis, and formulation

Postscript

References

Glossary

Appendix 1 assessment methods for children's attachment and adult romantic

Relationships

Appendix 2: questionnaires for assessment of adults

Appendix 3: questionnaires for the assessment of care-giving

Appendix 4: examples of actuarial and consensual family risk assessment instruments

Appendix 5: the process of application for a care order

Appendix 6: supplementary information relevant to expert witnesses in england and

Wales

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-315) and index.

ISBN:

9780415596350

0415596351

9780415596343

0415596343

OCLC:

764307010