‘Changing the way we do child protection’: The implementation of Signs of Safety® within the Western Australia Department for Child Protection and Family Support

Salveron, Mary; Bromfield, Leah; Kirika, Clara; Simmons, Jane; Murphy, Terry; Turnell, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.11.011

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“…First developed in Western Australia, the approach has been refined over the past 23 years and has been adopted by Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Norway, the United States, and other countries. Signs of Safety is a strengths-based culturally responsive approach to determining safety and safety goals, risks, and strengths with families (Salveron et al, 2015;Turnell, 2011, Turnell & Murphy, 2017Turnell & Edwards, 1997). Signs of Safety has four main objectives:…”

Section: Signs Of Safety Is a Practice Model With No Formal Fidelity mentioning

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An International Effort to Develop a Fidelity Measure for Signs of Safety®

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Caslor²,

Turnell³

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Research on Social Work Practice

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This article describes how a worker fidelity assessment measure was developed for Signs of Safety ®-an approach to assessing safety and risk in child protective services that is being implemented in the United States and over 11 other countries. Methods: We applied the Delphi Survey process with 70 experts from nine countries to identify key practice elements that could be assessed by supervisors. Then, 435 frontline staff were assessed by 285 supervisors from six countries. Results: Factor analyses of the 28 items yielded four distinct factors. These data were then used to refine the fidelity assessment. Discussion: The majority of supervisors reported that the assessment helped them to identify worker strengths and areas for refinement within the dimensions of Signs of Safety and overall child protective services practice. The value of developing similar tools for parents and workers was endorsed by the study participants.

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Section: Signs Of Safety Is a Practice Model With No Formal Fidelity mentioning

confidence: 99%

An International Effort to Develop a Fidelity Measure for Signs of Safety®

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Caslor²,

Turnell³

et al. 2018

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“…The objective is a partnership wherein a family and parents can understand the shared goal: the child's safety Edwards 1997, 1999). This model has been implemented widely in Australia, North America and Europe (Bunn 2013, p. 7), and on the basis of a retrospective study, this model has changed organisational structure and culture, and contributed to internal changes in practitioners' actions and interactions with families (Salveron et al 2015).…”

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Reciprocal Relationships and Well-Being

Törrönen¹,

Munn‐Giddings

Tarkiainen³

2017

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This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy practices by discussing how ideas of reciprocity can be understood and applied to welfare policy and social care practices as well as how the act of reciprocity supports the well-being of citizens. Contributions from Finland, Austria, the UK, the USA and Canada illuminate the ways in which sociopolitical contexts influence the power relations between citizens, practitioners and the state, and the potential (or otherwise) for reciprocity to flourish. This will be essential reading for social care practitioners, researchers and educationalists as well as postgraduate students in social work and related social care and community-oriented professions and social policymakers. Maritta Törrönen is Professor of Social Work at University of Helsinki. Her main research interests concern theory of reciprocity, global welfare society, communities, power relationships, everyday life and well-being, which have points of reference with social work and social policy, childhood, child protection, family research and ethnic studies. Her recent research is linked to international social work and proactive social work. She is leading the project 'Reciprocal Encounters-Young People Leaving Care', funded by the European Union during 2016-2018.

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“…Although both RA and SofS have already been widely implemented in clinical practice, and therapists are increasingly trained in these protocols, only a few studies investigated their effectiveness. The implementation of the SofS intervention has been examined in the child protection context in Western Australia (Salveron et al 2015). Results revealed that the SofS intervention was experienced as a useful method to deal with signs of child abuse by mental health practitioners, and child welfare leaders and supporters, and especially in multidisciplinary, family-work oriented settings.…”

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Increasing Family Safety and Decreasing Parental Stress and Child’s Social-Emotional Problems with Resolutions Approach: a Single-Case Experimental Design Study Protocol

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The present study describes a Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) research protocol. The outlined research is aimed at investigating the effectiveness and potential mechanisms of the Resolutions Approach (RA), a multidisciplinary intervention to stop child abuse and enhance safety in the families. Given the heterogeneity of the population and innovativeness of the topic, a SCED with a baseline period (A-phase) followed by a treatment period (B-phase) is designed. Participants will be fifteen families with children between 8 and 18 years in which specific signs of current child abuse are determined by more than one informant. The RA is a 20-session protocol implemented in an individual, family and social network context. Assessments of primary (incidents of child abuse) and secondary (child's emotional and behavioral problems, parental stress, closeness of child-parent relationship) outcomes will take place at the start of the baseline period, at pre-and post-treatment, and at two follow-ups. Personalised, idiosyncratic, assessments of the main family problems will be administered on a weekly base. At post-treatment, a qualitative interview is administered in the families examining the most potent mechanisms of change and treatment components. During social network meetings, safety and openness of communication about child abuse is assessed. This study responds to a need for evidencebased interventions for mental health workers dealing with child abuse. Limitations such as bias in the parental reports of child abuse are discussed. Trial registration: Dutch Trial Register: NTR6757. Registered (retrospectively) 04 November 2017.

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‘Changing the way we do child protection’: The implementation of Signs of Safety® within the Western Australia Department for Child Protection and Family Support

Cited by 30 publications

References 16 publications

An International Effort to Develop a Fidelity Measure for Signs of Safety®

An International Effort to Develop a Fidelity Measure for Signs of Safety®

Reciprocal Relationships and Well-Being

Increasing Family Safety and Decreasing Parental Stress and Child’s Social-Emotional Problems with Resolutions Approach: a Single-Case Experimental Design Study Protocol

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