Guidelines For Comprehensive Assessment of Infants and Their Parents In The Child Welfare System, 2006 Developed for the busy practitioner
assessing parental capacity and status of infants and toddlers for child welfare or the Court.
Not exact matches
She has been
assessing and treating children, adults, and families since 1986, and has been qualified as an expert witness in British Columbia in custody and access issues,
parental capacity assessments,
parental alienation, interviewing children, child and family matters, intimate partner violence, child abuse issues, sexual abuse, clinical and forensic psychology, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, and professional issues relating to the practice of psychology.
Although no consensus has been reached on definitions and approaches to measuring
parental capacity and child development, the initiative is dedicated to advancing the thinking around how to
assess these core components.
Individual aspects (students» cognitive
capacities and earlier developmental stimulations) as well as external conditions (
parental coping competences and parent - youth - coorientation) were
assessed and included into a path model.
Standardizing these measures will also help states
assess the effectiveness of other childhood interventions in enhancing
parental capacity and supporting healthy child development.