Deciding Children's Futures: An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's...

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Joyce Scaife

Deciding Children's Futures

An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family...

Joyce Scaife

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Routledge
19 July 2024

Social work; Mental health services; Psychotherapy

The second edition of Deciding Children’s Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children in the family court.

This practitioner’s guide discusses how to create relationships and pose questions that breach natural parental defences to understand their histories, anxieties, and needs. Drawing on practice knowledge, theory, and research findings, it integrates the accounts of parents and children with safeguarding imperatives and government guidance, to enable informed decisions that positively impact children’s futures. Chapters address issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, mental health difficulties and learning disabilities, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) abuse, and alienation of children, and encourage readers to consider the impact of their own values, histories, and beliefs on the assessment process. This edition is completely updated to reflect all the factors that have impacted assessments for the family court, including updates to case law and procedure rules, devolution of governments, and updates to DSM and ICD diagnostic categories.

Providing a comprehensive understanding of assessment for the family court, this user-friendly volume will be of great interest to expert witnesses, social workers, mental health professionals, solicitors, and anyone working in the family court system.

By: Joyce Scaife
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 790g
ISBN: 9781032565880
ISBN 10: 1032565888
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 19 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Interviewing 3. Assessment of Personality, Profile and Relationship Context 4. Special Issues in the Assessment of Adults 5. Assessment of Parenting 6. Assessment of Children and Young People 7. Assessing Attachment 8. Risk, Safety, Protective Factors and Needs Assessment 9. Placement and Child Arrangements 10. Theoretical Considerations, Data Synthesis and Re-Formulation

Joyce Scaife is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience as an expert witness carrying out assessments for the family court. She is former Director of Clinical Practice for the Clinical Psychology Unit at the University of Sheffield.