Psycho-Legal Concepts for Parenting in Child Custody and Child Protection Vol. 3 : Structured Instruments to Provide Objective Assessments in Court-Related Family Work / edited by Don Tustin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tustin, Don.

Series:

Behavioral Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book identifies a number of topics that arise in child protection where assessments of individual families are required. The author opines that it is essential to use structured instruments when making assessments on complex topic about risk to reduce bias and to maximise objectivity. The author summarises criteria that are required for an assessment instrument to be viewed by scientists as being objective. The book proposes that introducing more objective assessment instruments into the field of child protection will: improve the focus and brevity of assessment reports; and enable setting of thresholds that distinguish between families who provide good-enough parenting from families who should be referred for parenting education, and from parents who are unfit parents. The author identifies a number of topics that commonly arise in cases where maltreatment of children is alleged, reviews literature, and proposes checklists that can be used to gather data and to form a basis for developing validated assessment instruments for use in child protection. The topics identified are relevant both to therapists as parenting practices can be changed using focused therapy, and for legal assessment purposes as topics have been shown to be related to legal concerns about the safety and welfare of children. The overall aim of this book is to encourage greater use of scientific assessment approaches in the field of child protection.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2.Cognitive biases and risk assessment

3. Steps in constructing a psychometric assessment instrument

4. Screens to assess children’s mental wellbeing and resilience

5. Trauma and clusters of children’s disturbed behaviours

6. New generation approaches to assess parent-child relationships

7. Example of assessment of parent-child relationship

8. Personality Assessment Inventory testing in Family Court evaluations

9. Parenting Capacity Instrument for child protection

10. Proposed criteria for good-enough parenting in vulnerable families

11. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with depression

12. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with bipolar disorder

13. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with substance misuse disorder

14. Assess severity of risk to child from parental health conditions

15. Hearing the voice of a child, and thresholds for making legal decisions

16. Assess impacts on child of exposure to family violence

17. Assess impacts on child of parental substance misuse

18. Assess parental readiness to change practices

19. Assess quality of parent-child contact in out-of-home care

20. Assess risk of domestic violence

21: Conclusion

22. Glossary.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789819758586

9819758580

OCLC:

1477224421