Improving evidence-based social work practice with youths exhibiting conduct problems through structured assessment

Andershed, Anna‐Karin; Andershed, Henrik

doi:10.1080/13691457.2015.1043242

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“…Statements such as "We need to aim for the template and count risk and protective factors, especially at the stage of the notification report," also clearly relate to the template. These statements are in accordance with actuarial risk assessment and with Andershed and Andershed (2016), who found that social workers who use a structured assessment instrument identify a greater number of risk and protective factors, as compared with social workers without such tools.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…They were first presented with part one of a vignette constructed as an incoming referral and designed for the purpose of this study. Andershed and Andershed () argue that vignette is the method of choice to achieve a direct comparison of assessment methods in a situation as close to real life as possible, while keeping the potentially confounding factors constant. The study is descriptive in terms of investigating how professional social workers would have made decisions in the real world of practice (Taylor, ).…”

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“…In England, the Common Assessment Framework was developed as a standardized assessment tool for professionals working with children (White, Hall, & Peckover, 2009). Sweden and Denmark have developed tools such as BBIC and ICS (Andershed & Andershed, 2016;Deloitte Consulting, 2014).…”

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Decision‐making in child welfare services: Professional discretion versus standardized templates

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2018

Child & Family Social Work

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The article explores differences in the assessment and decision‐making processes, in child welfare services where a standardized template is implemented and in services where it is not. Child welfare services in several countries use different approaches to assess children's and families' need for intervention. In Norway, as in other European countries, there is a shortage of knowledge about decision‐making strategies. The article examines how 36 child welfare caseworkers in 6 different teams in Norway investigate, assess, and make decisions at the phase of an incoming referral. The analysed data were collected by focus group interviews. We use decision theory as a theoretical frame of reference. The analysis shows variation in the assessment procedure at different points of the process, depending on which approach was used. Despite such differences, the final decisions made were almost identical. Even though the data has its limitations because of the small number of informants, the results indicate that choice of approach is not decisive for decision‐making in the child welfare services.

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Decision‐making in child welfare services: Professional discretion versus standardized templates

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“…Research suggests that structured assessments are associated with greater diagnostic accuracy than unstructured approaches (Ponniah et al, 2011). Likewise, research indicates that standardized assessments are perceived as being of a higher quality and more useful for treatment planning compared to unstructured assessment techniques (Andershed & Andershed, 2016). As such, the importance of an accurate, thorough, and structured assessment can hardly be overstated.…”

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“…Limited evidence from the field of criminal justice suggests that risk assessments conducted using a structured instrument are more accurate and less biased than those that follow an unstructured format (i.e., "clinical judgments") (Hoge, 2002). Andershed and Andershed (2016) posited that a similar outcome would be observed among social workers. More specifically, they hypothesized that assessments using a structured instrument would be perceived by experienced management-level social workers as of a higher quality than those conducted without an instrument.…”

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Predictors of empirically-supported interventions following structured functional assessment.

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attention. Project SAFESPACE has recently initiated screening and assessment for all children entering out of home care in Kentucky with the goal of providing assessment-driven, evidence-based treatment. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment-the instrument adopted in this service system-is designed to link the assessment process with the selection of appropriate interventions. Informed by naturalistic decision making, this dissertation sought to investigate the relationship between responses on the CANS assessment and the empirically supported interventions subsequently prescribed by the assessing clinician. Using secondary data maintained in the statewide automated child welfare information system, a number of descriptive analyses were conducted in order to better understand this redesigned service system including the frequency of specific treatment prescriptions at the case, clinician, and agency levels as well as population-level CANS findings. Building upon these initial inquiries, four multilevel logistic models were developed to examine the relationship between assessment-derived predictors and the v prescribed treatment modality along four dimensions: trauma exposure, emotional/behavioral problems, family functioning, and substance use. Descriptive findings reveal an out of home care population with prevalent traumarelated symptoms and extensive emotional/behavioral needs. Considerable variation was observed in the treatment prescription patterns of assessing clinicians. Likewise, there is variation in the degree to which assessment findings align with prescribed treatment modalities. Findings suggest that assessment-derived information may be an important consideration in the prescription of a trauma-focused treatment and a minor, but still possibly salient, factor in treatment decision making related to emotional/behavioral needs and substance use. There appears to be no meaningful relationship between assessment responses and recommendations for family-focused treatment. As interpreted through the lens of naturalistic decision making, the results suggest that while assessment responses may one source of information utilized by clinicians in the field when making treatment decisions, there is likely a differential degree of influence depending on the specific dimension of treatment. Findings provide a foundation for future research into the situation-action matching decision rules employed

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Desistance from Conduct Problems during Childhood

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Facilitating Desistance From Aggression and Crime

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Improving evidence-based social work practice with youths exhibiting conduct problems through structured assessment

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Decision‐making in child welfare services: Professional discretion versus standardized templates

Decision‐making in child welfare services: Professional discretion versus standardized templates

Predictors of empirically-supported interventions following structured functional assessment.

Desistance from Conduct Problems during Childhood

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