Deciding children's futures an expert guide to assessments for safeguarding and promoting children's welfare in family court - Scaife, Joyce 1950- (London Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2013)
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Interviewing -- Assessment of personality, profile and relationship context -- Special issues in the assessment of adults -- Assessment of parenting -- Assessment of children and young people -- Assessment of attachment -- Risk, safety, protective factors, and needs assessment -- Placement, residence, and contact arrangements -- Theoretical considerations, data synthesis, and formulation -- Postscript -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix 1 assessment methods for children's attachment and adult romantic -- Relationships -- Appendix 2: questionnaires for assessment of adults -- Appendix 3: questionnaires for the assessment of care-giving -- Appendix 4: examples of actuarial and consensual family risk assessment instruments -- Appendix 5: the process of application for a care order -- Appendix 6: supplementary information relevant to expert witnesses in england and -- Wales -- Author index -- Subject index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-315) and index.
Keywords: Child welfare; Public welfare; Social work with children; Domestic relations courts