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Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment: How to Interpret Children's

Needs
  • ISBN-13: 9781843109235
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • Foreword by Brigid Daniel, By Duncan Helm
  • Price: AUD $58.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2010
  • Format: Paperback (226.00mm X 155.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 350g
  • Categories: Child welfare [JKSB1]
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The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Assessment aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and increasing accuracy and empathy in assessing the needs and risks for vulnerable children and young people.This book offers best practice guidance on how to analyse information gathered during the assessment of children and young people and their families. Good assessments take time and need to be appropriately resourced. A range of analytical tools are also needed if practitioners are to present assessments of children's needs which lead to meaningful care plans and improved outcomes. Helm introduces the key messages emerging from policy and research, and provides insights into today's multi-disciplinary practice.Professionals working in child welfare and protection roles, such as social workers, health visitors, midwives and teachers will find this practical guide to analysis invaluable in interpreting needs and outcomes.
Acknowledgements.; Series Editor's Foreword.; 1. Making Sense of Analysis.; 2. Searching and Seeing in Assessment.; 3. Building the Picture.; 4. Developing Explanations.; 5. Using Intuition Effectively.; 6. The Child at the Centre.; 7. Developing Practice in Analysis.; Glossary.; Bibliography.; Index.
If you are a practitioner trying to make sense of all the changes, and how best to integrate the various tools you have been asked to use with your own observations, to analyse and formulate easy to understand plans - without losing sight of your all important 'gut feeling' - then this is the book for you. Easy to read, helpful and above all informative, the book has seven very easy to grasp chapters, each jam-packed with information... I commend the author for his ability to describe the various links between government objectives, target setting and research, all somehow set out within a context that understands the challenges of working within the 'real world' of social care.... This book explains the 'what', the 'why' and the 'how' of it all - in other words, what's relevant to the work we do.
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