Perceived Needs of Therapeutic Service Providers in Their Work with Families in the Child Welfare System

Thompson, Heather; Colvin, Marianna L.

doi:10.1007/s10560-017-0506-4

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“…The current study’s quantitative results reflect Thompson and Colvin’s (2018) qualitative findings. Both imply a need to provide more extensive education, training, and supportive clinical supervision for clinicians tasked with assessing family’s needs and delivering family therapy.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…The challenge of providing family centered service to child welfare involved families has been acknowledged for many decades (Cole, 1995) and is no less pressing today. Thompson and Colvin (2018) The current study's quantitative results reflect Thompson and Colvin's (2018) qualitative findings. Both imply a need to provide more extensive education, training, and supportive clinical supervision for clinicians tasked with assessing family's needs and delivering family therapy.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…The challenge of providing family centered service to child welfare involved families has been acknowledged for many decades (Cole, 1995) and is no less pressing today. Thompson and Colvin (2018) record a particularly illustrative participant quotation worth including verbatim:If you are not experienced in family therapy or didn’t study family therapy in school or anything, it is like you are just kind of thrown in there and you got people screaming at each other and it is like…‘I don’t know what to do. I don’t have the proper tools.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging families in the behavioral health assessment process for child welfare-involved youth is a best practice standard in obtaining vital information about the context affecting their safety, permanency, and wellbeing. As family functioning plays a role in successful reunification for youth out-of-home care (OOHC), family engagement may also increase the likelihood of buy-in, clinical treatment participation and outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between standardized assessment domains of child and family needs and the prescription of family-focused treatment. Results suggest that there were overall low rates of prescription of family-focused treatment. There were significant differences in the prescription of family-focused treatment based on youth identified trauma, behavioral, emotional and family needs. Despite the impact of family functioning on placement, the low rate of prescribed family-focused treatment may reflect barriers such as communication and collaboration between providers, distance between family and placement, or a siloed approach to treating children in OOHC separate from their families. Approaches to address these barriers are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…The challenge of providing family centered service to child welfare involved families has been acknowledged for many decades (Cole, 1995) and is no less pressing today. Thompson and Colvin (2018) record a particularly illustrative participant quotation worth including verbatim:If you are not experienced in family therapy or didn’t study family therapy in school or anything, it is like you are just kind of thrown in there and you got people screaming at each other and it is like…‘I don’t know what to do. I don’t have the proper tools.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Recent research evidence suggests that service providers themselves recognize the need for broadened expertise. Thompson & Colvin (2018) conducted focus groups with therapeutic service providers working with the Florida child welfare system to identify perceived gaps in knowledge and skills. Providers consistently expressed a need "to be competent in a range of specialized areas" and to develop "greater expertise across a range of therapeutic modalities" (pp.…”

Section: Treatment Prescriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At an agency level, this finding may signal an opportunity for service specialization. Over the past several decades, private agencies have increasingly been contracted with to provide therapeutic services to child welfare populations (Thompson & Colvin, 2018). With the ongoing shift toward an EBP orientation, such contracts often function as "de facto policies guiding EBI [evidence-based intervention] implementation" and organizational administrators are still learning to navigate this new procurement and contracting landscape (Willging, Gunderson, Green, Jaramillo, Garrison, Ehrhart, & Aarons, 2018).…”

Section: Treatment Prescriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictors of empirically-supported interventions following structured functional assessment.

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attention. Project SAFESPACE has recently initiated screening and assessment for all children entering out of home care in Kentucky with the goal of providing assessment-driven, evidence-based treatment. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment-the instrument adopted in this service system-is designed to link the assessment process with the selection of appropriate interventions. Informed by naturalistic decision making, this dissertation sought to investigate the relationship between responses on the CANS assessment and the empirically supported interventions subsequently prescribed by the assessing clinician. Using secondary data maintained in the statewide automated child welfare information system, a number of descriptive analyses were conducted in order to better understand this redesigned service system including the frequency of specific treatment prescriptions at the case, clinician, and agency levels as well as population-level CANS findings. Building upon these initial inquiries, four multilevel logistic models were developed to examine the relationship between assessment-derived predictors and the v prescribed treatment modality along four dimensions: trauma exposure, emotional/behavioral problems, family functioning, and substance use. Descriptive findings reveal an out of home care population with prevalent traumarelated symptoms and extensive emotional/behavioral needs. Considerable variation was observed in the treatment prescription patterns of assessing clinicians. Likewise, there is variation in the degree to which assessment findings align with prescribed treatment modalities. Findings suggest that assessment-derived information may be an important consideration in the prescription of a trauma-focused treatment and a minor, but still possibly salient, factor in treatment decision making related to emotional/behavioral needs and substance use. There appears to be no meaningful relationship between assessment responses and recommendations for family-focused treatment. As interpreted through the lens of naturalistic decision making, the results suggest that while assessment responses may one source of information utilized by clinicians in the field when making treatment decisions, there is likely a differential degree of influence depending on the specific dimension of treatment. Findings provide a foundation for future research into the situation-action matching decision rules employed

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Perceived Needs of Therapeutic Service Providers in Their Work with Families in the Child Welfare System

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Prevalence and Predictors of Prescription of Family-Focused Treatment in Child Welfare

Prevalence and Predictors of Prescription of Family-Focused Treatment in Child Welfare

Predictors of empirically-supported interventions following structured functional assessment.

Latent class analysis risk profiles: An effective method to predict a first re-report of maltreatment?

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