Assessing Children in Need and their Families

Assessing Children in Need and their Families: Practice Guidance

Department of Health

Assessing Children in Need and their Families:

Practice Guidance

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Contents

Foreword

ix

Introduction

xi

1 Knowledge underpinning the Assessment Framework

1

Wendy Rose and Jane Aldgate

1.1 What is meant by knowledge in this chapter

1

1.4 Child development

1

1.8 The importance of attachment

4

1.14 Protective factors and resilience

5

1.19 Children's perspectives

8

1.20 Parental capacity

9

1.32 Parents' perspectives

12

1.35 Theories and myths of the individual in society

12

1.38 Wider family, community and environmental factors

13

1.49 Overarching theories and approaches that inform practice

16

1.55 Methods of intervention

17

1.56 Roles and tasks of child and family workers

19

1.62 The challenge of evidence based work

20

Appendix 1 Chart illustrating the developmental progress of infants and

23

young children

Appendix 2 Genogram

29

Appendix 3 Ecomap

30

References

31

2 Assessing black children in need and their families

37

Ratna Dutt OBE and Melanie Phillips

2.1 Introduction

37

2.8 Assessing black children in need and their families

37

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