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Deciding children's futures : an expert guide to assessments for safeguarding and promoting children's welfare in family court /
"Deciding Children's Futures 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. This is a practition...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.