A randomized controlled trial of training in Motivational Interviewing for child protection

Forrester, Donald J.; Westlake, David; Killian, Mike; Antonopoulou, Vivi; McCann, Michelle; Thurnham, Angela; Thomas, R. Murray; Waits, Charlotte; Whittaker, C.; Hutchison, Dougal

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.014

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“…All coders were trained using audio recordings of simulated client interviews from a previous study involving the authors (Forrester et al, 2018). All coders were trained using audio recordings of simulated client interviews from a previous study involving the authors (Forrester et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this initial exploration of dimensionality of practice skills and the sample do not lend itself to a The findings are part of a larger study (an RCT) investigating the impact of a skills development package of training and supervision in MI (Forrester et al, 2018(Forrester et al, , 2019. Additionally, multiple families were assigned to workers, although nearly half the sample of workers only had one or two assigned cases that were observed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interviews were coded by researchers who were blind to all features of the meeting between the social worker and the family. All coders were trained using audio recordings of simulated client interviews from a previous study involving the authors (Forrester et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Patterns of practice: An exploratory factor analysis of child and family social worker skills

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There is relatively little research on the communication skills that social workers use in direct practice with families. This study explores patterns of practice skill found in child and family social work home visits. The study analysed 127 practice interactions in family homes, coding for seven dimensions of worker skill using a coding framework drawn from motivational interviewing. Exploratory factor analysis was employed to establish patterns of skill within the data and to group key dimensions of skill. The findings make two contributions. First, three fundamental dimensions of good practice emerged, which we characterize as care and engagement, good authority, and support for behaviour change. Second, in exploring the relationship between "care" and "control" elements of social work, skilled social workers were able to combine good authority and empathic engagement, whereas those who were less skilled in use of authority were also less good at engagement. This contributes to debates about care and control in social work. The usefulness of these dimensions for conceptualizing practice in child and family social work is discussed and directions for further research are suggested. KEYWORDS child protection policy and practice, communication skills, motivational interviewing focused on direct work with children and highlighted the complexity of such conversations and the ways in which social workers manage

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“…The MSW model seeks to incorporate principles and skills from Motivational Interviewing, task-focused social work, and traumainformed practice (Forrester et al, 2018;Forrester et al, 2019).…”

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What do children think about their social worker? A Q‐method study of children's services

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Carro

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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Understanding how children experience social work interventions is an important part of gauging whether what is provided is genuinely helpful. In this paper, we describe the findings from a research project using Q-method, aimed at understanding what children involved with statutory services think about their social workers and how they experience the time they spend together. Using a pre-existing practice framework, we explored skills including empathy, collaboration, and purposefulness from the point of view of children and young people. The participants in our study (n = 22) were insightful observers of social work practice, able to describe not only how they experienced time spent with their workers but also inferring differences in motivation and approach. In addition, workers who were described in similar terms by different young people were nevertheless experienced differently. This suggests not an archetypal "good social worker"-instead, there are skills that are good for specific children at specific times within the context of specific relationships.

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“…Such has been the level of confidence that financial investment instruments have been developed associated with the programmes, for example, social impact bonds attached to Multi-Systemic Therapy (Edmiston and Nicholls, 2018), which promise to pay social investors financial returns for pre-specified results. A veritable commissioning 'bandwagon' (Dick et al, 2016) has resulted, but-as it is slowly becoming clear-often with mixed or outright disappointing results in replication in new settings (e.g., Fonagy et al, 2018;Cottrell et al, 2018;Forrester et al, 2018;Humayun et al, 2017;Robling et al, 2015;Little et al, 2012;Biehal et al, 2010).…”

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Developing theories of change for social programmes: co-producing evidence-supported quality improvement

Ghate

2018

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For much of the past two decades, expensive and often imported evidencebased programmes (EBPs) developed by clinician-researchers have been much in vogue in the family and parenting support field, as in many other areas of social provision. With their elaborate infrastructures, voluminous research bases and strict licensing criteria, they have seemed to offer certainty of success over less packaged, less well-evidenced locally developed approaches. Yet recently, evaluation research is showing that success is not assured. EBPs can and regularly do fail, at substantial cost to the public purse. In times of severe resource pressure, a pressing question is, therefore, whether lower cost, home-grown, practitioner-developed programmes-the sort often overlooked by policy-makers-can deliver socially significant and scientifically convincing outcomes at lower cost and at least on a par with their better resourced cousins. This paper shows how the application of techniques increasingly used in implementation science (the science of effective delivery) could help level the playing field. Processes for doing this including co-produced theory of change development and validation are illustrated with reference to the Family Links Ten Week Nurturing Programme (FLNP-10), a popular manualised group-based parenting support programme, designed and disseminated since the 1990s by a UK-based purveyor organisation. The paper draws out general principles for formulating and structuring strong theories of change for practice improvement projects. The work shows that novel application of implementation science-informed techniques can help home-grown programmes to compete scientifically by strengthening their design and delivery, and preparing the ground for better and fairer evaluation.

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A randomized controlled trial of training in Motivational Interviewing for child protection

Cited by 32 publications

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Patterns of practice: An exploratory factor analysis of child and family social worker skills

Patterns of practice: An exploratory factor analysis of child and family social worker skills

What do children think about their social worker? A Q‐method study of children's services

Developing theories of change for social programmes: co-producing evidence-supported quality improvement

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