Assessing parents' capacity to change: Frontline Tool (2013)
This tool accompanies the Frontline Briefing: Assessing Parents' Capacity to Change.
In table format, it provides examples of well-validated tools to support assessment in key domains of child, parent and family functioning.
Reflective questions and practice implications
This is followed by a resource that outlines assessment tools designed to capture change in parenting capacity. This includes measures of the quality of the parent-child relationship, parents’ state of mind and the availability of – and parents’ willingness to engage with – social support.
- How can you use the four stage assessment process outlined in this frontline briefing, together with the standardised measures described in the frontline too, to reach a clear and shared understanding of the challenges a family faces and the capacity of the parents to address those challenges?
- How can you support parents’ capacity to change and help them to achieve clearly identified and meaningful goals?
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Communication | Child development | Relationships and effective direct work | Abuse and neglect of children | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review
PCF - Values and ethics | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Critical reflection and analysis | Intervention and skills
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