Assessment in Social Work

Milner, Judith; O’Byrne, Patrick

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14054-1

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“…Previous studies have shown that the decisions of child protection workers regarding child safety and permanence were determined more by the parent's level of compliance than by real change (Brank et al 2001;Holland 2000). It was also argued that assessments are often described in a vocabulary that reflects the professional's specialized way of understanding and assessing (Holland 2000), which is seldom the client's world (Milner and O'Byrne 2002;Iversen et al 2005). Platt (2012) suggested an integrated model of parental engagement in child welfare services that takes into account workers' skills and attitudes and various parental and interactional factors.…”

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confidence: 94%

Parental Cooperation with Social Services and Termination of Parental Rights in Israeli Court Cases of Child Maltreatment

Ben‐David¹

2016

J Child Fam Stud

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Parental cooperation with social services in child maltreatment cases is fundamental to all forms of family intervention. If rehabilitation efforts fail and the child cannot be safely reunified with his parents, the state is authorized to initiate termination of parental rights (TPR) proceedings. Given the scant literature on parental cooperation and TPR, the present study examined associations between parental cooperation and TPR in Israeli court cases of child maltreatment. Comparisons between uncooperative (n = 106) and cooperative parents (n = 155) revealed that uncooperative parents were more than three times more likely to have their parental rights terminated than cooperative parents, controlling for child and parent characteristics. Parents who did not cooperate with social services had high levels of mental health problems, substance abuse, criminal records, and poverty and their children had more mental health concerns and suffered more from neglect. We discuss the important implications resulting from these findings, which include: the need to view the engagement of parents in the child welfare process as a specific goal in itself and develop research-based models specifically targeting multiple-problem families at high risk of TPR; the need for professionals to build a good working alliance with parents in order to strengthen their participation; the need to take into account different background conditions and stressors related to the parents in order to facilitate greater cooperation; and the need to assess the potential mental health needs of children involved in cases of maltreatment with low parental cooperation.

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Parental Cooperation with Social Services and Termination of Parental Rights in Israeli Court Cases of Child Maltreatment

Ben‐David¹

2016

J Child Fam Stud

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“…The way in which the downgrading of older casework skills combines with the intensification of workloads to impede the ability to complete the risk assessments with any degree of reliability has been commented on by Milner and O'Byrne (1998). Other research has shown that where there is an environment of institutionalised pressure to complete assessments under conditions of resource constraints and lack of training in traditional casework skills, all manner of subjective judgements creep into assessments (Webb, 2006).…”

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confidence: 95%

Deconstructing Probation: Risk and Developments in Practice

Fitzgibbon¹

2008

Journal of Social Work Practice

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“…There may be concerns that someone with limited capacity, such as an older person with dementia or someone with severe learning impairment, cannot, as Beckett (2010) suggests, contribute to the exchange. Similarly, both Beckett (2010) and Milner and O'Byrne (2009) suggest that an exchange model may not be feasible in situations of risk. This viewpoint does not take account of the potential for the worker to gain the person's own perspective of risk and, importantly, to gain the perspectives of others in the person's network.…”

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confidence: 93%