Assessing children in need assessments - a parental perspective

Corby, Brian; Millar, Malcolm; Pope, Anne M.

doi:10.1080/09503150208411538

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“…According to earlier research (Corby et al, 2002;Platt, 2012), the key to success in child welfare services is to find some level ground or form of congruence in the views between the clients and the professionals. In the study by Dumbrill (2006), clients either perceived professionals to exert power over them, or as form of support.…”

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Putting one’s best foot forward: Finnish prospective adoptive parent’s strategic interaction in statutory pre-adoption services

Eriksson

2017

Qualitative Social Work

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In an inter-country adoption process, the private issue of becoming a parent takes place within a regulated institutional setting and process with professionals acting as gatekeepers along the way. This qualitative study based on 19 narrative interviews scrutinizes the strategic interaction used by prospective adoptive parents to navigate the controlling institutional setting of statutory pre-adoption services. This social interaction with the professionals is analysed as power negotiations and discussed by utilizing Goffman’s conceptual framework of expression management and stage play. The study shows that prospective adoptive parents, whose primary aims differ from those of the professionals, play on different teams than the professionals. Therefore, they utilize expression games through information, emotion, and team management in order to put their best foot forward in the pre-adoption services. But along the inter-country adoption play the audience shifts and the professionals often join the same team as the future adoptive parents. Further, the article discusses the consequences of this on the relationship between the professionals and prospective adoptive parent as a client within a global inter-country adoption scene.

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Putting one’s best foot forward: Finnish prospective adoptive parent’s strategic interaction in statutory pre-adoption services

Eriksson

2017

Qualitative Social Work

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“…The phenomenon of enforced and temporary compliance has been widely noted (Provincial Project Committee on Enhancing Positive Worker Interventions with Children and their Families in Protection Services, March 2006 , 2006, p. 413; Dumbrill, 2006 ; Callahan, Field, Hubberstey, & Wharf, 1998 ; Corby, Millar, & Young, 1996 ; Corby, Millar, & Pope, 2002 ; Cleaver & Freeman, 1995 ). This phenomenon casts doubt on the extent to which social workers are meaningfully able to work with parents particularly as it is clear that some parents consider compliance is their only option.…”

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“…Issues of consent and coercion are more obviously problematic when child abuse is alleged. The consequence of coercive assessment is known to contribute to poor relations between families and social workers (Donzelot, 1980 ; Gibbons, 1995 ; Cleaver & Freeman, 1995 ; Corby et al , 1996 ; Corby et al , 2002 ; Dumbrill, 2006 ). Whereas a family which seeks assessment for their child on the basis of a disability, for example, may be extremely willing to work with social workers for the purpose of obtaining an assessment, a family which feels there is a pre-existing negative inference in relation to their parenting may not be.…”

Section: Areas Of Uncertainty For Evaluation In the ‘Dual Purpose Modmentioning

confidence: 99%

Considering social work assessment of families

Devine

2015

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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Since the 1990s the way in which social workers respond to referrals of children to Children's Social Care departments has evolved. It has moved through a process that ‘screens families out’ of child protection assessment to a system aiming to ‘screen families in’ where necessary, and now uses a holistic assessment aiming to screen for both risk and need. The assessment framework developed to assess children in need and their families is the modern social work response to all referrals. Little research has been carried out to assess its suitability as a widespread social work response. This article considers the debates that have emerged in relation to its use and concludes that insufficient consideration has been given to evaluating assessment as an appropriate measure of need and risk. Wider provision of non-assessed universal services would reduce the need for assessment.

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“…These findings about parental involvement in CAF assessments in ‘Dale’ appear to mirror evidence from other studies, which suggest that practitioners have often found parental involvement a far from straightforward process and that some parents have felt insufficiently involved in assessments conducted under the Framework for Assessment (Department of Health 2000). Corby et al . (2002), for example, report on a study of initial and core assessments and note that about a third of parents either had little awareness of the fact that they had been the subject of an assessment or felt so negatively about the intervention that they were unable to view any aspect of their involvement positively.…”

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confidence: 99%