Deciding Children’s Futures An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children’s Welfare in the Family Court 2nd Edition by Joyce Scaife ISBN 1032565896 9781032565897

Deciding Children’s Futures An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children’s Welfare in the Family Court 2nd Edition by Joyce Scaife ISBN 1032565896 9781032565897

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ISBN 10: 1032565896
ISBN 13: 9781032565897
Author: Joyce Scaife

The second edition of Deciding Children’s Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing 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 in the family court.

This practitioner’s guide discusses how to create relationships and pose questions that breach natural parental defences to understand their histories, anxieties, and needs. Drawing on practice knowledge, theory, and research findings, it integrates the accounts of parents and children with safeguarding imperatives and government guidance, to enable informed decisions that positively impact children’s futures. Chapters address issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, mental health difficulties and learning disabilities, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) abuse, and alienation of children, and encourage readers to consider the impact of their own values, histories, and beliefs on the assessment process. This edition is completely updated to reflect all the factors that have impacted assessments for the family court, including updates to case law and procedure rules, devolution of governments, and updates to DSM and ICD diagnostic categories.

Providing a comprehensive understanding of assessment for the family court, this user-friendly volume will be of great interest to expert witnesses, social workers, mental health professionals, solicitors, and anyone working in the family court system.

Deciding Children’s Futures: An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children’s Welfare in the Family Court 2nd Table of contents:

1 Introduction

The Court Context

Purposes of Assessment

Being Assessed

Feelings Associated with Assessment

Confidence and Trust

Relationship, Alliance, and the Temptation to ‘Rescue’

Confidentiality

Signs of Safety; Signs of Risk

Art or Science, Analytical or Intuitive Judgements, Quantitative or Qualitative Methods?

Fairness

The Interview as a Research Process

What Can Go Wrong and How to Avoid It

Skills

2 Interviewing

Purpose of Interviews

Issues in Interviewing

Role and Responsibilities of Interviewer

The Role of Checklists and Formal Structures for Interviewing

Reflecting Purpose in the Start of the Interview

Opening the Interview

The Continuing Interview

Closing Down Interviews

Challenges in Interviewing

Interviewing Involving Interpreters

Virtual Interviews

Bearing in Mind That We Are More Similar Than Different and Our Lives Could Have Followed a Similar Path

3 Assessment of Personality, Profile, and Relationship Context

Personality Traits and Psychological Profile

Aspects of Profiles Relevant to Family Proceedings

Assessing Motivation to Change

Assessment of Social Support

Assessment of Couple Relationships

Domestic/Intimate Partner Abuse

4 Special Issues in the Assessment of Adults

Mental Health Difficulties

Harmful or Problematic Drug or Alcohol Use

Disability

5 Assessment of Parenting

Precautions

What Matters in Parenting?

Sources of Evidence

A Framework for the Assessment of Care-Giving (AF)

Formal Assessment Measures of Parenting

Parents with Learning Disabilities

Parental Capacity for Change

Prioritising Data in Assessments of Care-Giving

Interventions and Sources of Support

6 Assessment of Children and Young People

Introduction

Legislation and the Voice of the Child

Making Sense of Behavioural Indicators

Interviewing Children

Structured Approaches to the Assessment of Children

7 Assessing Attachment

Attachment and Learning Theories

Piaget's Theory of Learning

The Impact of Infant Temperament

Parental Factors Affecting the Development of Attachment and Categorisations of Attachment Style

Stability of Attachment Patterns

Adult Attachments

Attachment Disorder

Critiques of Attachment Theory

Attachment in Practice – Relevance to Safeguarding

Assessment of Attachment

Attachment and Time Spent with Birth Family

Assessments of Care-Giver Sensitivity

Implications of Attachment Theory for Placement

Continuity of Attachment

8 Risk, Safety, Protective Factors, and Needs Assessment

Approaches to Conducting Assessments of Risk, Safety, Protective Factors, and Needs

Assessments of Safety

The Epidemiology of Child Abuse and Neglect

Actuarial and Consensual Risk Assessment Tools

Decision Tree Methods – HCR-20

Aims of Risk Assessment

Assessing Strengths, Needs, and Protective Factors

Structured Decision Making

9 Placement and Child Arrangements

Issues in Deciding Placement

Types of Placement

The Decision to Place Siblings Together or Apart

Family Time with Birth Relatives

Private Law

10 Theoretical Considerations, Data Synthesis, and Re-Formulation

The Meaning of Information

Theoretical Considerations

Organisation of Material

Strategies for Data Analysis and Synthesis

The Family's Understanding and Explanations

Re-Formulation

In Conclusion

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