Family Functioning Assessment
Extent of child maltreatment, Circumstances surrounding the maltreatment, Child Functioning on a daily basis, Adult functioning on a daily basis, General Parenting practices, and Discipline and behavior management.
What are the 6 domains?
A family condition that endangers a child, is real, can be described, reported, and is evidenced in explicit and unambiguous ways.
What is Observable Family Condition?
When all five threshold criteria are met the child within the household is
What is Unsafe?
This is when a child is in a continuous state of danger due to caregiver behaviors, attitudes, motives, emotions, and/or situations posing specific severe harm to a child.
What is Impending Danger?
Observable family condition, Vulnerable child, Unmanaged, Severity, and Imminent.
What are the Five Threshold Criteria?
This threshold considers the child's age, physical/emotional development, and the ability to communicate needs.
What is Vulnerable Child
When no impending danger threat is identified the child within the household is
What is safe?
These domains support information needed within the Severity and Imminent threshold criteria
What is Extent of maltreatment and Circumstances surrounding maltreatment?
Having enough relevant information to rule in or out the 16 impending danger threats.
What is sufficient information?
This is the likelihood that harm would occur without intervention.
What is imminent?
True or False: When a dangerous family condition is occurring, but not all threshold are met the child in the household is unsafe.
What is False?
We gather sufficient and relevant information to make an informed decision on child safety.
What is the purpose of the FFA- Assessment?
The harshness of the maltreatment to the child are described within this threshold criteria.
What is Severity?
What threshold criteria does this inform: Angie lacks empathy toward her daughter Rue which contributes to Rue's feelings of hopelessness and depression. Angie refuses to adjust her parenting approach to Rue's needs. She believes Rue is a menace and hates being a parent.
What is Unmanaged?
We gather information through interviews, observations, documents; this informs conclusions within the 6 domains, CPCs, and threshold criteria.
What is How we make an assessment of impending danger?
This threshold criteria would not be met if the parent has been able to make all behavioral changes as outlined within a case plan.
What is Unmanaged?
True or False, this information informs Severity: Ms. Aguila's substance use is so severe she uses 30 fentanyl pills a day and falls asleep at the bus stop.
What is False?