Life Skills Progression: An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk...

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Linda Wollesen Brad Richardson

Life Skills Progression

An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk

Linda Wollesen, Brad Richardson, Sandra Smith

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Brookes Publishing Co
31 July 2024

Age groups: children; Social welfare & social services; Paediatric nursing; Community nursing

A must for home visiting programs, the updated second edition of the LSP is the most efficient, reliable way to evaluate a parent’s life skills: the abilities, behaviors, and attitudes they need to achieve a healthy and satisfying family life. For use with at-risk, low-income pregnant and parenting individuals with children from birth to 5 years of age, the LSP is a field-tested, validated, and reliable tool that generates a broad, accurate portrait of the life skills of parents, caregivers, and young children. Easy to complete in about 10 minutes, the LSP will help your program establish baseline and ongoing assessment profiles of clients, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and demonstrate the effectiveness of your practices through monitoring of outcomes.

How it Works

Home visitors, including public health nurses, social workers, mental health care providers, and family development and family support workers, use the LSP to evaluate a variety of important life skills. An experienced professional familiar with the family records information on 43 items in eight important domains:

Relationships with Family and Friends Relationships with Children Relationships with Supportive Resources Education and Employment Health and Medical Care Mental Health and Substance Abuse Basic Essentials Infant/Toddler Development

Home visitors rate each competency from 1 to 5 on a simple-to-complete form, where they can also record important case data in the notes section. No judgment of families is implied—the LSP is used only to track the progress of children and parents or caregivers, and can be repeated every six months until the child is 5.

What's New

New chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy Guidance on completing the LSP during virtual home visits LSP Instrument and downloads now provided as fillable PDFs Updated research, citations, and information throughout Updates and improvements based on customer surveys and feedback from the field Scoring descriptions updated for clarity Ancillary materials now provided as convenient downloads

Use the LSP with ASQ®-3 & ASQ®:SE-2!

With items that match the ASQ developmental areas, the LSP makes it easy to summarize the developmental data you gathered with the ASQ system.

By: Linda Wollesen, Brad Richardson, Sandra Smith
Imprint: Brookes Publishing Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781681255828
ISBN 10: 1681255820
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 31 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

About the Online Materials About the Authors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) Chapter 2: The History of Chasing Elusive Outcomes Chapter 3: Maternal Early Childhood Home Visitation Best Practices Chapter 4: Development and Field Testing of the LSP Chapter 5: Instructions for Using and Scoring the LSP Chapter 6: Reflective Supervision Using the LSP Chapter 7: Using the LSP to Promote Maternal Health Literacy Sandra Smith, Ph.D. Chapter 8: Using the LSP for Evaluation Purposes Chapter 9: Integrating the LSP Into Sites and Systems References Appendices A Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) Instrument B Abbreviations Used in the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) C Emerging Best Practice for Home Visitation Checklist D “Better Together”: Home Visitation Community Collaboration Planning Worksheet E LSP Data Entry Form F Sample Scored LSP Instrument: “Selene and Jason” G Selene & Jason’s Story (as told with the LSP) H Cumulative LSP Score Sheet I Sample Cumulative LSP Score Sheet: “Selene and Jason” J LSP Instrument with Target Scores Shaded K LSP Data Report Planning Tool L Resources Index

Linda Wollesen focused her career on public health nursing and collaborative community-based services to low-income and ethnically diverse families. She worked as a nursing visitor in housing projects in East Los Angeles, nursing supervisor in Santa Clara, and program manager in Santa Cruz County, all in California. Her clinical expertise included services and care coordination for children and infants who have special needs or who are in foster care. She also supervised a research replication site for the David Olds Nurse-Family Partnership in Monterey County. Ms. Wollesen was the developer of the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) instrument and pioneered the reliability and content work for the tool with the support of a fellowship from ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. She founded the Life Skill Outcomes, LLC, which provides LSP training and best practice consultation and developed an LSP database for use by programs using the LSP.