Instruments for the Assessment of Parental and Family Capacity in Risk Situations
Keywords:
Family assessment, Risk assessment, At-risk children, Parental capacity, Child protectionAbstract
The Integrated Family Assessment and Intervention Model (IFAIM) incorporates an assessment process which
aims to inform decision making in situations of psychosocial risk or danger for the child, as well as the elaboration or family
support projects. The Instruments of Synthesis of Comprehensive Assessments in IFAIM (ISCAI) were built to support the
organization and synthesis of this assessment process. The purpose of this study is to evaluate its psychometric properties
concerning construct validity, concurrent validity and reliability, considering internal consistency and inter-rater agreement.
The ISCAI revealed quite satisfactory psychometric properties which allow recommending its use in the organization and
synthesis of comprehensive assessments.
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Progress and promise as the fourth wave rises. Development
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Disponível com os autores.
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J. Horwath (Ed.), The child’s world. Assessing children in need
(pp. 35-49). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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child welfare. National child welfare resource center for familycentered
practice. Retrieved from http://www.childwelfare.
gov/famcentered/casework/assessment.cfm
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comissões de protecção de crianças e jovens. Lisboa: Centro
de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa.
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risk assessment. Using actuarial risk assessment to target
service interventions in pilot California counties. Madison,
Wisconsin: Children’s Research Center. Retrieved from http://
www.nccd-crc.org/crc/crc/pubs/13th_roundtable_ca_risk.pdf
Wald, M. S., & Woolverton, M. (1990). Risk assessment: The
emperor’s new clothes? Child Welfare, LXIX, 6, 483-511.
Walsh, F. (2002). A family resilience framework: Innovative
practice applications. Family Relations, 51(2), 130-137. doi:
10.1111/j.1741-3729.2002.00130.x
Wise, S. (2003). The child in family services. Expanding child
abuse prevention. Australian Social Work, 56(3),183-195. doi:
10.1046/j.0312-407x.2003.00081.x
teóricos e metodológicos em análise de instrumentos. In G. S.,
Abbad, L. Mourão, P. P. M. Meneses, T. Zerbini, J. E. Borges-
Andrade & R. Vilas-Boas (Eds.), Métodos para avaliação em
treinamento, desenvolvimento e educação: Ferramentas para
gestão de pessoas (pp. 64-76). Porto Alegre: Art med.
Azar, S. T., Lauretti, A. F., & Loding, B. V. (1998). The
evaluation of parental fitnesss in termination of parental
rights cases: A functional-contextual perspective. Clinical
Child and Family Psychology Review, 1(2),77- 100. doi:
10.1023/A:1021883611965
Belsky, J. (1980). Child maltreatment: An ecological integration.
American Psychologist, 35(4), 320-335. doi: 10.1037/0003-
066X.35.4.320
Belsky, J. (1984). The determinants of parenting. A process model.
Child Development, 55(1), 83-96.
Budd, K. S. (2001). Assessing parenting competence in child
protection cases: A clinical practice model. Clinical
Child and Family Psychology Review, 4(1), 1-18. doi:
10.1023/A:1009548509598
Ciccheti D., & Valentino, K. (2006). An ecological-transactional
perspective on child maltreatment: Failure of the average
expectable environmental and its influence in child
development. In D. Cicchetti & D. J. Cohen (Eds.),
Developmental sychopathology, Vol. 3 (2nd ed.) (pp. 129-199).
New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Cicchetti, D., & Lynch, M. (1995). Failures in the expectable
environment and their impact on individual development:
The case of child maltreatment. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen
(Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology. Vol. 2 Risk, disorder
and adaptation (pp. 32-71). New York : John Wiley and Sons.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.) (2006). Developmental
psychopathology, Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley
& Sons.
Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (1997). Transactional ecological
systems in developmental psychopathology. In S. S. Luthar, J.
A. Barack, D. Cicchetti & J. R. Weisz (Eds.), Developmental
psychopathology: Perspectives on adjustment, risk and
disorder (pp. 317-349). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Crianças e Jovens em
Risco [CNPCJR] (2009). Relatório anual de avaliação das
actividades das comissões de protecção de crianças e jovens.
Lisboa: Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Crianças e Jovens
em Risco.
Corcoran, J., & Nichols-Casebolt, A. (2004). Risk and resilience
ecological framework for assessment. Child and Adolescent
Social Work Journal, 21(3), 211-235. doi: 10.1023/B:CA
SW.0000028453.79719.65
Cummings, E. M., Davies, P. T., & Campbell, S. B. (2000).
Developmental psychopathology and family process. Theory,
research, and clinical implications. New York: The Guilford
Press.
Darlington, Y., Healy, K., & Feeney, J. A. (2010). Approaches to
assessment and intervention across four types of child and
family welfare services. Children and Youth Services Review,
32(3), 356-364. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.10.005
DePanfilis, D. (1996). Implementing child mistreatment risk
assessment systems: Lesson from theory. Administration in
Social Work, 20(2), 41-59. doi: 10.1300/J147v20n02_04
Department of Health (2000). Framework for the assessment of
children in need and their families. London: Stationery Office.
Farnfield, S. (2008). A theoretical model for the comprehensive
assessment of parenting. British Journal of Social Work, 38(6),
1076-1099. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcl395
Fowler, J. (2003). A practitioner’s tool for child protection and the
assessment of parents. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Jack, G. (2001). Ecological perspectives in assessing children and
families. In J. Horwath (Ed.), The child’s world. Assessing
children in need (pp. 53-74). London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers.
Johnson, K. & Wagner, D. (2003). California Structured Decision
Making TM. Risk Assessment revalidation: A prospective study.
Children’s Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.nccdcrc.
org/crc/crc/pubs/CACPS2003RiskValidationReport.pdf
Johnson, M. A., Stone, S., Lou, C., Vu, C., Ling, J., Mizhari, P.,
& Austin, M. J. (2006). Family assessment in child welfare
services: Instrument comparisons. Retrieved from http://www.
childwelfare.gov/famcentered/casework/assessment.cfm
Johnson, W. L. (2011). The validity and utility of the California
Family Risk Assessment under practice conditions in the field:
A prospective study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 35(1), 18-28. doi:
10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.08.002
Jones, D. (2001). The assessment of parental capacity. In J. Horwath
(Ed.), The child’s world. Assessing children in need (pp. 255-
272). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Landis, J. R., & Koch, G. G. (1977). The measurement of observer
agreement for categorical data. Biometric, 33, 159-174.
Laros, J. A. (2005). O uso da análise fatorial: Algumas diretrizes
para pesquisadores. In Pasquali. L. (Ed.), Análise fatorial
para pesquisadores (pp. 141-160). Brasília: LabPAM Saber
e Tecnologia.
Léveillé, S., & Chamberland, C. (2010). Toward a general model
for child welfare and protection services: A meta-evaluation
of international experiences regarding the adoption of the
Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their
Families (FACNF). Children and Youth Services Review, 32,
929-944.
Masten, A. S. (2007). Resilience in developing systems:
Progress and promise as the fourth wave rises. Development
and Psychopathology, 19(3), 921-930. doi: 10.1017/
S0954579407000442
Melo, A. T., & Alarcão, M. (2008). Manual de preenchimento dos
Instrumentos de Síntese da Avaliação Compreensiva no MAIFI.
Disponível com os autores.
Reder, P., & Lucey, C. (Eds.). (1995). Assessment of parenting.
Psychiatric and psychological contributions. Hove: Brunner-
Routledge.
Rose, W. (2001). Assessing children in need and their families. In
J. Horwath (Ed.), The child’s world. Assessing children in need
(pp. 35-49). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Schene, P. (2005). Comprehensive family assessment guidelines for
child welfare. National child welfare resource center for familycentered
practice. Retrieved from http://www.childwelfare.
gov/famcentered/casework/assessment.cfm
Spratt, T., & Devaney, J. (2009). Identifying families with multiple
problems: Perspectives of practitioners and managers in three
nations. British Journal of Social Work, 39(3), 418-434. doi:
10.1093/bjsw/bcm150
Torres, A. (Coord.) (2008). Estudo de diagnóstico e de avaliação das
comissões de protecção de crianças e jovens. Lisboa: Centro
de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa.
Wagner, D. & Johnson, K. (1999). 13th national rountable on CPS
risk assessment. Using actuarial risk assessment to target
service interventions in pilot California counties. Madison,
Wisconsin: Children’s Research Center. Retrieved from http://
www.nccd-crc.org/crc/crc/pubs/13th_roundtable_ca_risk.pdf
Wald, M. S., & Woolverton, M. (1990). Risk assessment: The
emperor’s new clothes? Child Welfare, LXIX, 6, 483-511.
Walsh, F. (2002). A family resilience framework: Innovative
practice applications. Family Relations, 51(2), 130-137. doi:
10.1111/j.1741-3729.2002.00130.x
Wise, S. (2003). The child in family services. Expanding child
abuse prevention. Australian Social Work, 56(3),183-195. doi:
10.1046/j.0312-407x.2003.00081.x
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Teixeira de Melo, A., & Alarcão, M. (2015). Instruments for the Assessment of Parental and Family Capacity in Risk Situations. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 31(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18140
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