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Assessing Parenting Skills and Competencies
Resources for screening and assessing parenting skills and competencies.
Assessing Parenting Capacity in a Child Welfare Context
Budd
Children and Youth Services Review, 27(4), 2005
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Describes components of mental health evaluations of parents in a child welfare context.
Assessing Parents: Parenting Skills and Parental Relationships
Holland (2004)
In Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice
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Explores how social workers use assessment to gauge adequacy in parenting, as well as parental relationships and domestic violence.
The Family Activities Inventory: A Tool for Assessing Family Strengths
Harper & Parry (1999)
In Twelfth National Roundtable on Child Protective Services Risk Assessment: Summary of Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, July 8-10, 1998
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The Family Activities Inventory (FAI) is a strengths-based inventory of parenting skills, beliefs, and practices designed for use in home visitation and other family support programs that provide services to parents of children birth through age 3.
Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS)
Comfort Consults, LLC
This website provides information for family support workers and other related professionals on the use of the KIPS parenting scale, which assesses caregiver behaviors, tracks progress, and evaluates intervention outcomes.
Manual for the Dimensions of Discipline Inventory (DDI)
Straus & Fauchier (2007)
Provides the manual for a brief instrument measuring discipline techniques of parents.
Parenting Capacity
Donald & Jureidini
Child Abuse Review, 13(1), 2004
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Description of an approach to the assessment of parenting and parents' ability to empathically understand and give priority to their child's needs.
The Parents Under Pressure Program
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Child Abuse Prevention Newsletter, 12(1), 2004
Provides an overview of the Parents Under Pressure program, theoretical influences on its development, and preliminary evidence of efficacy and effectiveness. (PDF - 110 KB)
The Protective Capacity Assessment: Addressing Threats to Child Safety within the Case Plan
Action for Child Protection (2005)
This structured interactive assessment process is intended to build partnerships with caregivers to help identify and seek agreement regarding child safety and develop case plans that will effectively address caregiver protective capacities and child needs.
Protective Capacity Assessment: Model Summary and Practice Protocol, Stakeholder Edition (PDF - 1597 KB)
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children's Services (2011)
Provides family services caseworkers with a structured approach for engaging and involving caregivers and children in the case planning process.