SAFETY
What is an approach that continually assesses risk and safety throughout all programs?
Child Welfare Assessment and Decision Making
Child Welfare conducts two types of safety assessments. What are the two types of safety assessments? If there is a form used, name the form also.
Informal and formal safety assessment using a form 5.
There are 3 steps of completing a quality assessment using critical thinking. Name two.
Collecting information, organizing information, and analyzing information,.
A child’s capacity of self-protection is called ________________
Child vulnerability
When children are protected from abuse and neglect and can be safely be maintained in their own home, they are considered to be _________________.
Safe
We gather information around 3 areas of assessment which we record on the Assessment of Family Functioning.
Extent of Maltreatment, Adult functioning and CPCs, Child Functioning/Vulnerability
Although it is important to make professional judgements about our families and their situation, we do not consider this as _______________ documentation we can present in court or any of our documentation.
Objective
Workers assess and tune into 3 areas when handling a crisis.
Self, environmental and client
What are the 3 variables that are considered in determining if a child is safe?
Threat of danger, Child Vulnerability and Caretaker Protective Capacity
What is the process called which includes collecting information by using engagement, interviewing and observation skills. The process begins with first contact with the family and continues throughout the life of the case
Assessment
What is the ability to see both sides of an issue and the worker reasons dispassionately. Also, the decisions are made backed by evidence and facts not feelings which may be biased.
Critical thinking
Safety of children is constantly being assessed in which CW programs?
All
Define what caretaker protective capacity means.
CPCs are strengths in the way a caretaker thinks, feels and acts that prevents or controls the threat of danger. They also are enhanced and diminished and help us guide our case planning and assess progress.
Name two personal factors of the Child Welfare Worker that could interfere with quality assessments.
Poor cultural competency skills, personal bias, lack of critical thinking, burnout, poor engagement or interviewing skills, poor observation skills,
On what form do we document a child’s past traumas and mental health?
TBH
Which assessment domain is concerned with life management, social relationships, self-control, problem solving, mental health and substance abuse?
Adult Functioning/CPCs
Threat of Danger is defined as a Caretaker’s behavior or family situation indicates what two things that will result in the child being unsafe?
Imminent, serious harm
What is the difference between risk and safety and tell us the tools used to assess each.
Risk is the likelihood of maltreatment in the future and is assessed by the SDM and safety imminent and is formally assessed with the Form 5
What is the difference in objective and subjective documentation?
Objective documentation is based on facts, what seen, heard, smelled or touched not influenced by personal feelings, thoughts, values or assumptions subjective is the opposite of objective
What are the four phases of case work?
Preliminary, Beginning/Contracting, Middle/Work Phase, Ending/Transition Phase