Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment

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.