Considering social work assessment of families.
Considering social work assessment of families.
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10.1080/09649069.2015.998005
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2015-01-02
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Devine L
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Devine L
自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，社会工作者应对儿童转介至儿童社会关怀部门的方式发生了变化。它已经从一个将家庭排除在儿童保护评估之外的过程转变为一个旨在在必要时“筛选家庭”的系统，现在使用旨在筛查风险和需求的整体评估。为评估有需要的儿童及其家庭而制定的评估框架是现代社会工作对所有转介的回应。很少有研究来评估其作为广泛的社会工作应对措施的适用性。本文考虑了与其使用相关的争论，并得出结论认为，没有充分考虑将评估作为需求和风险的适当衡量标准。更广泛地提供未经评估的普遍服务将减少评估的需要。
Since the 1990s the way in which social workers respond to referrals of children to Children's Social Care departments has evolved. It has moved through a process that ‘screens families out’ of child protection assessment to a system aiming to ‘screen families in’ where necessary, and now uses a holistic assessment aiming to screen for both risk and need. The assessment framework developed to assess children in need and their families is the modern social work response to all referrals. Little research has been carried out to assess its suitability as a widespread social work response. This article considers the debates that have emerged in relation to its use and concludes that insufficient consideration has been given to evaluating assessment as an appropriate measure of need and risk. Wider provision of non-assessed universal services would reduce the need for assessment.