Evaluation Guide of Parental capacities:
An Ecological Validity Study
Keywords:
Parenting capacities, Assessment, Child protection, Ecological validityAbstract
This aim of this study was to promote and improve the adaptation of the Parental Capacities Evaluation Guide
(De Rancourt, Paquette, Paquette, & Rainville, 2006) to the Portuguese child protection system. A focus group methodology was
used with professionals who work directly on parenting assessment: Social workers, judges and researchers. The discussions
of the focus group concentrated on the Guide ‘feasibility, the usefulness of the information obtained, the clinical judgements
made and on the major changes needed. From content analysis with the QSRNVivo8 software, it was concluded that the Guide
is based on updated scientific knowledge and that it provides sufficient information for the assessment of parenting capacities.
Three major kinds of changes to be made were identified: methodological, structural and content changes.
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validity, representative design, and correspondence between
experimental task constraints and behavioral setting: Comment
on Rogers, Kadar, and Costall (2005). Ecological Psychology,
19(1), 69-78. doi:10.1080/10407410709336951
Barudy, J., & Dantagnan, M. (2010). Los desafíos invisibles de ser
madre o padre. Manual de evaluación de las competencias y
la resiliencia parental. Barcelona: Gedisa.
Belsky, J., & Vondra, J. (1989). Lessons from child abuse: The
determinants of parenting. In D. Cicchetti & V. Carlson (Eds.),
Child maltreatment: Theory and research on the causes and
consequences of child abuse and neglect (pp. 153-202). New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Bowden, C. (2009, March). Parenting capacity assessments: A
psychologist perspective. Comunicação apresentada na Child
Protection Conference, British Columbia.
Çakir, M. (2012). Epistemological dialogue of validity: Building
validity in educational and social research. Education, 132(3),
664-674.
Choate, P. W., & Engstrom, S. (2014). The “Good Enough” Parent:
Implications for Child Protection. Child Care in Practice,
20(4), 368-382. doi: 10.1080/13575279.2014.915794
Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens em Risco
(2011).Guia de orientações para os profissionais da ação
social na abordagem de situações de maus tratos ou outras
situações de perigo. Retrieved from http://www.cnpcjr.pt/
downloads/Guia_accao_social.pdf
Department of Health, Department for Education and Employment
&Home Office (2000). The Framework for the Assessment of
Children in Need and their Families (reference:DH-4014430).
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Retrieved from https://
www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/
Framework%20for%20the%20assessment%20of%20
children%20in%20need%20and%20their%20families.pdf
De Rancourt, L., Paquette, F., Paquette, D., & Rainville, S. (2006)
Guide d’évaluation des capacités parentales: Adaptation
du guide de Steinhauer: 0 Ã 5 ans (3éd.). Montréal: Centres
Jeunesse de Montréal.
Family Disability Studies Initiative (2012). Parenting Capacity
Assessments: Some Guiding Principles. (Practice Points).
Retrieved from http://www.fdsa.ualberta.ca/AboutUs/Sup
portingParentswithIntellectualDisabilities/PracticePoints/
Capacity.aspx.
Gillingham, P., & Humphreys, C. (2010). Child protection
practitioners and decision-making tools: Observations and
reflections from the front line. British Journal of Social Work
40(8), 2598-2616.doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcp155
Hammond, K. R. (1998). Ecological validity: Then and now.
Retrieved from http://www.brunswik.org/notes/essay2.html.
King, J. E. (2004, February). Software Solutions for Obtaining
a Kappa-Type Statistic for Use with Multiple Raters. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational
Research Association, Dallas.
LaRossa, R. (2005). Grounded theory methods and qualitative
family research. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67(4), 837-
857.doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00179.x
Lombard, M., Snyder-Duch, J., & Bracken, C. C. (2010). Practical
resources for assessing and reporting intercoder reliability
in content analysis Research Projects. Retrieved from http://
www.temple.edu/sct/mmc/reliability/
Munro, E. (2008). Effective child protection (2nd ed.). London:
Sage Publications.
Paquette, F. (2004). À chaque enfant son projet de vie permanent:
Un programme d’intervention. Montréal: Centres Jeunesse de
Montréal - Institut Universitaire.
Pereira, D. (2014). Parentalidade e proteção à infância: um guia
para a avaliação da capacidade parental. (Unpublished
doctoral dissertation). Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra.
Robin, P. (2011). L’évaluation de la maltraitance en tension:
L’exemple de la définition participative d’un référentiel.
In C. Gaux & I. Vinatier (Eds.), Outils pour la formation,
l’éducation et la prévention: Contributions de la psychologie
et des sciences de l’éducation: actes du colloque OUFOREP,
6-7 Juin 2011: Vol.3. Modes d’élaboration et de validation
des outils et dispositifs pour la formation, l’éducation et la
prévention, (pp. 219-228). Nantes: Outils pour la formation,
l’éducation et la prévention.
Rossello, J., & Bernal, G. (1996). Adapting cognitive-behavioral
and interpersonal treatments for depressed Puerto Rican
adolescents. In E. D. Hibbs & P. S. Jensen (Eds.), Psychosocial
treatments for child and adolescent disorders: Empirically
based strategies for clinical practice (pp. 157-185). New York:
American Psychological Association.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2001). What is ecological validity? A
dimensional analysis. Infancy, 2(4), 419-436. doi: 10.1207/
S15327078IN0204_02
Service de Protection de la Jeunesse (2008). Référentiel d’évaluation
du danger encouru par l’enfant et des compétences parentales
(Doc n° R3.20). Canton de Vaud: Département de la formation,
de la jeunesse et de la culture - Service de protection de la
jeunesse.
Steinhauer, P. (1993). Assessing parenting capacity. Newsletter of
the Infant Mental Health Promotion Project, 8, 5-7.
Tippins, T. M., & Wittmann, J. P. (2005). Empirical and ethical
problems with custody recommendations: A Call for Clinical
Humility and Judicial Vigilance. Family Court Review, 43(2),
193-222. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-1617.2005.00019.x
White, A. (2005). Assessment of parenting capacity: Literature
review. Ashfield: NSW Department of Community Services:
Centre for Parenting & Research.
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2015-11-16
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Pereira, D., & Alarcão, M. (2015). Evaluation Guide of Parental capacities:: An Ecological Validity Study. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 31(2), 203–212. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18124
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